Being sick of politics: The production of dengbêjî as Kurdish cultural heritage in contemporary Turkey [PDF]
Over the last decade the art of dengbêjî [Kurdish minstrelsy] has come to be understood as the paradigmatic form of Kurdish heritage and dengbêjs concomitantly as the authentic carriers of Kurdish “culture.” This article seeks to outline some of the ...
Schäfers, Marlene
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Introduction:Theatre, Performance and Commemoration [PDF]
How is theatre, by its very nature, commemorative? How, and why, does theatre centralize commemoration as a performative, conceptual, historical and political site from which to interrogate the inherent utopia and dysfunction of nationhood?
Fernandes, Alinne +2 more
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Analîza Pêwendîyên Desthilatdarên Kurdan û Dengbêjan di Çarçoveya Pergala Patronajê da [PDF]
Mijara vê xebatê hîmayekarîya dengbêjan a ji alîyê mîr û hakimên kurdan e di çarçoveya pergala hîmayekarîyê ango “patronajê” da. Li gelek herêmên dinyayê şah û siltanan li edîb û hunermendan xwedî derketine.
Mustafa Aslan
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Hakkâri/Colemêrg: Travels to the Eastern Taurus (1958, 1965) [PDF]
In 1958 and again in 1965, the German ethnomusicologist Dieter Christensen and his wife, Nerthus Christensen, travelled to Hakkâri for field research. Their material became the basis for numerous academic articles. Despite an evident orientalist approach
Christensen, Dieter
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A return of forced migration in Turkey? [PDF]
Taking into consideration that emergency state was lifted in southeast of Turkey in 2002, but migration continued and negative net migration from Kurdish inhabited regions still have grown.
Kaczorowski, Karol
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Marlene Schäfers, Voices That Matter. Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey [PDF]
Voices That Matter. Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey, paru chez Chicago University Press en 2022, est la première monographie de Marlene Schäfers, anthropologue affiliée à l’Université d’Utrecht.
Drechselová, Lucie
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The sung home : narrative, morality, and the Kurdish nation [PDF]
Kurdish dengbêjs are singer-poets who are trained in singing and telling stories. For a long time, the dengbêjs and their art were suppressed and forgotten, and only recently did they return into public life.
Hamelink, W.
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‘Sold Out to the Enemy’: Emerging Symbolic Boundaries in Kurdish Politics and the Strategic Uses of Labeling Treason [PDF]
Why do the pro-Kurdish activists selectively condemn renowned leftists of treason? Why are allegations of treachery so ubiquitous? Existing literature suggests that the Kurdish community would be particularly receptive to allegations of treason because ...
Gurbuz, Mustafa E.
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Fruitless attempts? The Kurdish initiative and containment of the Kurdish movement in Turkey [PDF]
Following the victory of the Kurdish party DTP (Demokratik Toplum Partisi, Democratic Society Party) in Turkey's southeastern provinces in the local elections of March 2009, Turkey witnessed the AKP (Adalet ye Kalkinma Partisi, Justice and Development ...
Casier, Marlies +2 more
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Bir direniş hikayesi Dengbej ve Stranbej olarak Eyşe Şan [PDF]
97 pagesMusical performing culture of ‘Dengbêj’ that is a part Kurdish oral culture and an important source of Kurdish history, is often seen as a tradition that enables the transmission of culture from past to present.
Zaman, Rojda
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