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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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(Im)politeness research on historical texts: an interaction-based approach on the samples derived
(Im)politeness research is a field of study that is not limited to politeness and impoliteness methods used in contemporary languages but is also becoming enriched with studies on the data obtained from historical texts. Research on the earlier periods
Mustafa, Zeynep
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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In the historical study of contemporary Turkic languages and dialects, primary sources include not only spoken language and folklore but also ancient written literary-historical works in Turkish.
QALİBƏ
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ABSTRACT This study examines how two pre‐service English teachers in Türkiye navigate the racialized (whiteness‐Europeanness‐indexed) and marketized legitimacy regimes of the private English language teaching sector. Drawing on a language teacher identity lens and a political economy account of accent commodification, we analyze the contrasting ...
Onur Özkaynak, Peter Sayer
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COMPOUND SENTENCES WITHOUT Kİ IN IRAQI TURKMAN TURKISH
Compound sentences with ki has found way to Turkish by foreign languages during Uygur and Ancient Anatolian Turkish periods. Although compound sentences with ki are used in Iraqi Turkman Turkish, these are much using without ki, in the same way as it was
Suzan TOKATLI
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Abstract The Arabian Peninsula encompasses one of the world's most extensive aeolian systems, yet the provenance and transport history of its dune sediments are not well understood. Using hyperspectral data from NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT), we mapped mineral compositions and abundance patterns across dune fields and ...
Ahmed Alshakr +8 more
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Shallow Modeling and Site‐Amplification From Telecommunications Fibers in Istanbul
Abstract We use pre‐existing fiber‐optic telecommunications fibers in Istanbul, Türkiye, to generate a seismic velocity model of the subsurface down to 100 m depth, and estimate site‐amplification in the region. We collect ambient noise, predominantly from urban traffic, along the 8 km segment fiber, extract Rayleigh wave dispersion curves, and use a ...
Daniel Bowden +9 more
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ABSTRACT The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia, and even later in eastern Asia ...
Marie‐Helene Moncel +20 more
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