Date of Award
Spring 5-27-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
Isa Blumi
Second Advisor
Jared Poley
Third Advisor
Joseph Perry
Abstract
It is estimated that there are 35.000 villages in Turkey, and a great number of them have their own unofficial web-sites created as a result of individual efforts. The individuals who prepare these web-sites try to connect with the world via the internet, and represent their past with limited information. Pages on these web-sites that are titled "our history" or "our short history" provide some unique historical, cultural, and anthropological information about the villager's life in rural area. This thesis examines amateur historians' methods of reinterpretation in the past, and as such explore Turkish local history from a new point of view.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1958639
Recommended Citation
Sabancioglu, Musemma, "New Custom for the Old Village Interpreting History through Turkish Village Web-Sites." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2011.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1958639