Ethnographic authority and public culture in Turkey in the 1950s

Name: Ethnographic authority and public culture in Turkey in the 1950s
Author: Sipahi, Ali

İsim	Ethnographic authority and public culture in Turkey in the 1950s
Yazar	Sipahi, Ali
Basım Tarihi:	2020-06
Basım Yeri	- Taylor & Francis
Konu	Post-war Turkey, Ethnographic authority, Public culture, Photojournalism, Fieldwork
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	0275-7206
Kayıt Numarası	ff966485-b184-4350-8fde-f2dbddaa9769
Lokasyon	Humanities and Social Sciences
Tarih	2020-06
Örnek Metin	The article is a historical study of ethnographic practices in non-academic fields of culture. It examines the practices and artefacts of cultural production in post-war Turkey and reveals that in the long 1950s popular as well as elite culture lived through an 'ethnographic moment' in which ethnographic authority was elevated to be the dominant criterion for the evaluation of good work. During this ethnographic moment, artists, writers and journalists turned their professional practices into ethnographic fieldwork, forged distinction based on their ethnographic methodology, and excluded armchair practitioners as amateurs. By focusing on four main fields - folklore, painting, cinema, and photojournalism - in post-war Turkey, this study disentangles the history of ethnographic practices from the narrower scope of the history of anthropology/sociology and situates it in an overarching account of cultural encounters with the others. In this period, any form of representation of the others was expected to be based on intersubjective intimacy, first-hand experience, and local knowledge. Modern ethnographic methodology was the zeitgeist of public culture.
DOI	10.1080/02757206.2020.1777113

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Ethnographic authority and public culture in Turkey in the 1950s

Yazar Sipahi, Ali

Basım Tarihi 2020-06

Basım Yeri - Taylor & Francis

Konu Post-war Turkey, Ethnographic authority, Public culture, Photojournalism, Fieldwork

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 0275-7206

Kayıt Numarası ff966485-b184-4350-8fde-f2dbddaa9769

Lokasyon Humanities and Social Sciences

Tarih 2020-06

Örnek Metin The article is a historical study of ethnographic practices in non-academic fields of culture. It examines the practices and artefacts of cultural production in post-war Turkey and reveals that in the long 1950s popular as well as elite culture lived through an 'ethnographic moment' in which ethnographic authority was elevated to be the dominant criterion for the evaluation of good work. During this ethnographic moment, artists, writers and journalists turned their professional practices into ethnographic fieldwork, forged distinction based on their ethnographic methodology, and excluded armchair practitioners as amateurs. By focusing on four main fields - folklore, painting, cinema, and photojournalism - in post-war Turkey, this study disentangles the history of ethnographic practices from the narrower scope of the history of anthropology/sociology and situates it in an overarching account of cultural encounters with the others. In this period, any form of representation of the others was expected to be based on intersubjective intimacy, first-hand experience, and local knowledge. Modern ethnographic methodology was the zeitgeist of public culture.

DOI 10.1080/02757206.2020.1777113