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

Important events in Turkish history11th century Turks invade and conquer all of

Anatolia.1299 Establishment of the Ottoman Principality1453 Mehmet II conquers Constanstinople

(Istanbul)16th century The height of the Ottoman Empire.

Suleyman the Magnificent1918 Turkey surrenders to Allies. Turkey

occupied by Anglo-French armies1918-1922 War for independence

The REALLY important events in Turkish history

1923 Mustapha Kemal (Ataturk) founded the Republic of Turkey

1938 Death of Ataturk1960 Military coup after the introduction of

multi-party democracy1980 Military coup after social unrest

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

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 1990’s.

Map of Turkey

Regional map

Sakaltutan, 1949

Sakaltutan, 1993

The Archives

A Turkish Village, Paul’s 1965 monographPaul’s doctoral thesis from OxfordThousands of photographsOver 8,000 pages of fieldnotesAll of Paul’s published and unpublished articlesMargaret Stirling’s fieldnotesPaul’s research assistants fieldnotesThree formal household surveys: 1950, 1971,

1985

Some of Paul’s interests

Social change

Economics

Migration