Book
A village in Anatolia
Vallentine, Mitchell and Co., Ltd. • London • Published In 1954 • Pages:
By: Makal, Mahmut, Deedes, Wyndham Henry, Sir, Stirling, Arthur Paul, Thomas, Lewis V. (Lewis Victor).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 (see document no.6) and began teaching in the village of Nürgüz (near his home village of Demirji). Makal's writings are literary impressions of village life as he knew it in Central Anatolia, after a time of famine. Although many topics are touched on, those covered in more depth are village living conditions; attitudes toward schools and teachers (and toward change in general); religious beliefs and practices; status of women; and local government and justice.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Turks
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Teacher
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Joan Steffens ; 1966-1967 ; Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not assigned
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nürgüz village and area, central Turkey
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mahmut Makal ; translated from the Turkish by Sir Wyndham Deedes, with a foreword by Lewis V. Thomas ; and edited by Paul Stirling
- 'Consists of the main portions of Bizim koy (Our village)... and of Koyumden (From my village)'
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54004293
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Turkey--Description and travel
- Turkey--Social life and customs