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Patient Perceptions of Traditional Bonesetters and Determinants of Their Utilization: A Cross-Sectional Study in Iraqi Kurdistan. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Despite the prevalent reliance on traditional bonesetters (TBSs) in Kurdish societies, their role remains underexplored in scholarly research. This study aimed to evaluate patients' perceptions of TBSs and to investigate the determinants of their utilization over modern orthopedic care.
Omar RM   +3 more
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Pênase û Taybetmendîyên Lorîyan

open access: yesMukaddime, 2023
Lorî, cureyeke anonîm a edebîyata kurdî ya gelêrî ye. Dema ku zarok tên şîrdayin, xewandin, aşkirin an jî ji bo girîyê zarokan bê rawestin ji alîyê dayikan ve tên vegotin.
Mustafa Öztürk
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"I miss my village" forced Kurdish migrants in Istanbul and their representation in associations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Metropolises in Turkey like İstanbul, Ankara, and İzmir along with the cities in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia received a significant number of internally displaced Kurds (hereinafter referred to as Kurdish IDPs) in the late 1980s to the 1990s.
Celik, Ayse Betul, Çelik, Ayşe Betül
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The local and the global: Gina Nahai and the taking up of serpents and stereotypes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Region, home and transnational migration are explored in terms of the transcultural complexities that reverberate through Iranian American Gina Nahai's Sunday's Silence.
Yousaf, N
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The fictive archive: Kurdish filmmaking in Turkey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In this paper, I consider the potentials and theoretical interpretations of Kurdish Cinema produced in Turkey. I evaluate the dynamics of the emergence of a state-less Kurdish cinema, which produces films in spite of the existence of Turkish National ...
Çiçek, Özgür
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"Language, Aesthetics, and Ideology: Conceptual Frameworks for Turkish Literary Criticism" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study attempts to investigate the salient features of Turkish literary criticism through deconstructing the concepts of language, aesthetics and ideology intersecting the disciplines of sociology and history. It questions the nationality of the self-
Nalan Erbil Erkan
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The Event In The Poetry Of Long And Short Songs In Kurdish Folk Literature

open access: yesQalaai Zanist Scientific Journal, 2020
Songs are divided into different forms, according to the criteria used between one division: art, songs, folk songs and folk songs i.e. traditional epic dealing with events and things from our worldly world such as man, nature, love, adventure, friendship, war, nostalgia, aspirations, hatred, memories, and masculinity, in addition to its main theme ...
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Analyzing the Archetype of Hero's Journey in Kurdish Folk Tales: A Case Study of the Haft Baradar Story

open access: yesپژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی
The archetypal notion of the hero's journey, one of the most pervasive archetypes, has consistently guided the interpretation and reception of the intratextual and extratextual elements within traditional narratives. The present study explores the hero's
Mansour Rahimi
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Haunted histories and ambiguous burial grounds in Iraqi Kurdistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
As part of a wider research project that documents site-specific oral history associated with caves and cemeteries among the rapidly changing populations of Iraqi Kurdistan, the present study analyses oral histories and traditions concerning one ...
Fisher, T, Mustafa, M, Zagros, N
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The THE KURDISH EPIC BETWEEN FOLKLORE AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE: THE EPICS OF (MAM AND ZIN) AND (ZANBIL FROSH) AS A MODEL

open access: yesگۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆ
   The epic, as a literary genre, narrates a lengthy experience and is structured according to poetic forms. This genre holds significant value and importance in Kurdish literature, with its roots tracing back to ancient times among the Kurdish people ...
Hersh Nuri, Bakir Abdullah
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