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Traditional Oil Wrestling in Turkey

2021
Once the Turks arrived in Asia Minor on the saddle of a horse’s back, they brought about not only their material belongings but also their lifestyles and traditional cultures (Türkmen, 2016: 78). Oil wrestling has been one of the most important traditions to survive as introduced by the Turks (Ercengiz, 2018: 6). One can argue that oil wrestling, which
Uzun, Recepnur, Gül, Mehmet
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Sunu Coosan: Creating “our tradition” in Senegalese wrestling songs

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2023
AbstractThis article explores the term “sunu coosan” as a Senegalese trope of self‐articulation and as a semiotic strategy in contemporary discourses surrounding nationhood. The term, meaning "our tradition" in Wolof, is used by professionals as well as lay people in their promotion of the national sport, Làmb wrestling. By examining this phrase within
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Being Breton through wrestling: Traditional gouren as a distinctive Breton activity

Ethnography, 2021
Gouren is a style of wrestling practiced in Brittany, France. It has been “sportised” during the last century, but it still represents an emblematic tradition for those people involved who exploit its ancient origins to describe it as a distinctive Breton activity. Following the same path of Breton “identity”—one that has been defined in opposition to
Nardini, Dario, Epron, Aurelie
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Traditional Wrestling in Thrace

International Journal of Wrestling Science, 2012
ABSTRACTThe aim of this paper was to study the traditional wrestling matches which were held by the Greeks in Thracian cultural events by researching the literature and the information acquired by field work. As research has revealed, the Thracians included wrestling matches in almost every festival and celebration.
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WRESTLING IS A TRADITIONAL UZBEK SPORT

Galaxy International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 2021
Wrestling, one of the traditional sports of the Uzbek people, has a history of three and a half thousand years.Kurash is an Uzbek word that has been mentioned in a number of ancient Eastern literary sources as a one-on-one wrestling and social entertainment sport.
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Traditional Sport: Mud Wrestling & Mud Preparation

International Journal of Wrestling Science, 2013
(2013). Traditional Sport: Mud Wrestling & Mud Preparation. International Journal of Wrestling Science: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 150-151.
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Traditional “Karakucak” Wrestling and Its Applications in Turkey

2021
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Gül, Mehmet, Özkurt, Burhan
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The Sportification and Heritagisation of Traditional Turkish Oil Wrestling

The International Journal of the History of Sport, 2012
The Kirkpinar oil wrestling festival in the Turkish town of Edirne on the European side of the country close to the Greek and Bulgarian borders has been inscribed in 2010 in the ‘Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’ of the UNESCO.
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