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Constructing National Identity Through Museums in Early Republican Turkey: Historical Narrative, Spatial Transformation, Exhibiting Modernity, and Monumentality

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 373-389, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
wiley   +1 more source

VIEW OF THE OPERA IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AS A PART OF ACCULTURATION

open access: yesZeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2011
When a society lives with a different society, they do an acculturation directly or indirectly in a process. However, acculturation can be used directly for a political purpose as a part of innovation.
Seyit YÖRE
doaj  

‘Liberation’ of ‘Younger Brothers’ or Genocide of Subhumans? Genocidal Discourses on Ukrainians in Putin's Regime

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 594-605, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
wiley   +1 more source

Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
wiley   +1 more source

Family album

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Family Album follows a young university student assisting a journalist in documenting a glass workers' strike in Istanbul's Paşabahçe neighborhood during the summer of 1999. Immersed in the atmosphere of solidarity and collective struggle, she accompanies the journalist to interview Murat, a key strike organizer, in his shanty house ...
Deniz Yonucu
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War) [PDF]

open access: yes
The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the empire’s unique culture and institutions to examine the roles
Iyigun, Murat
core  

Social music in cars [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper builds an understanding of how music is currently experienced by a social group travelling together in a car - how songs are chosen for playing, how music both reflects and influences the group’s mood and social interaction, who supplies the ...
Ali, Hasan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Spring Music Festival, Program, 2008

open access: yes, 2008
Program for the May 8, 2008 Spring Music Festival, "The Magic of Music," conducted by Lawrence ...
Music Department
core   +1 more source

The Historical Meanings and Functions of the Qadim and Jadid Distinctions in Makam Names

open access: yesKonservatoryum
The theoreticians of Ottoman (or classical Turkish) music defined some makams and in their compound forms with the new names they created by adding certain adjectives to the name of a known maqam.
Hakan Aykurt
doaj   +1 more source

The Cairo Takiyya Mawlawiyya (1033H/ 1623AD): Spirit of the Arts and Sufi Inscriptions

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2019
The Takiyya Mawlawiyya in Cairo is a unique example of architecture in form, design and function, and the complete model of the takiyya, which was created specifically for the ceremonial Mawlawi Derwishes rituals, as well as the rest of the architectural
Radwa Zaki
doaj   +1 more source

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