Paul Stirling Turkish Village Archives

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Paul Stirling - Turkish Village Archives

• http//lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Stirling/
• A useful page to read before you begin
• http//lucy.ukc.ac.uk/TVillage/blurb.html

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Important events in Turkish history

• 11th century Turks invade and conquer all of
  Anatolia.
• 1299 Establishment of the Ottoman Principality
• 1453 Mehmet II conquers Constanstinople
  (Istanbul)
• 16th century The height of the Ottoman Empire.
  Suleyman the Magnificent
• 1918 Turkey surrenders to Allies. Turkey
  occupied by Anglo-French armies
• 1918-1922 War for independence

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The REALLY important events in Turkish history

• 1923 Mustapha Kemal (Ataturk) founded the
  Republic of Turkey
• 1938 Death of Ataturk
• 1960 Military coup after the introduction of
  multi-party democracy
• 1980 Military coup after social unrest

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Reforms

• 1924 Abolition of the Caliphate
• 1925 Abolition of the fez suppression of
  religious brotherhoods closing of sacred tombs
  as places of worship
• 1926 Adoption of new Civil Law code
• 1928 Introduction of Latin alphabet
• 1934 Kemal takes the name of Ataturk when a new
  law required Turks to adopt surnames women
  made eligible to vote in elections and to
  become members of Parliament

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Professor Paul Stirling

• Student of Evans-Pritchard at Oxford
• Stirling did initial fieldwork in Sakaltutan,
  Turkey in 1949 to 1950.
• Second trip to Turkey in 1951 in the village of
  Elbasi.
• Third trip in 1952.
• He continued to do field work in the area until
  the 1990s.

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Map of Turkey
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Regional map
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Sakaltutan, 1949
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Sakaltutan, 1993
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The Archives

• A Turkish Village, Pauls 1965 monograph
• Pauls doctoral thesis from Oxford
• Thousands of photographs
• Over 8,000 pages of fieldnotes
• All of Pauls published and unpublished articles
• Margaret Stirlings fieldnotes
• Pauls research assistants fieldnotes
• Three formal household surveys 1950, 1971, 1985

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Some of Pauls interests

• Social change
• Economics
• Migration