Turkish village
Book 1965 Stirling, Arthur Paul

TurksMiddle East > Middle East
The aim of the author's field work was to study an orthodox Muslim, Turkish-speaking village of modest size intensively and another village in less detail. He thus spent 10 months in the village of Sakaltutan (1949-1950) and 6 months in Elbasi (1951 ...

Land, marriage, and the law in Turkish villages
article 1957 Stirling, Arthur Paul

TurksMiddle East > Middle East
This article contrasts Turkish civil law and the informal system of social control in terms of the norms affecting land ownership and sale, inheritance, and marriage practices....

The domestic cycle and the distribution of power in Turkish villages
essay 1963 Stirling, Arthur Paul

TurksMiddle East > Middle East
This paper analyzes the structural relations between domestic organization and village organization and how this system was in turn maintained by the political and economic organization of the larger society....

A village in Anatolia
Book 1954 Makal, Mahmut et al.

TurksMiddle East > Middle East
This source is a translation of the main portions of two books originally published in Turkey: Bizim Köy (Our Village), 1950, and Köyümden (From My Village), 1952. The author, a young village schoolteacher, was a graduate from the Village Institute (...