Current status of Kurdish culture in Turkey. Ethnical and national identity of Kurdish people in Istanbul and Diyarbakir − study field research

• Authors: Szymon Knitter
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In his text the author showed the results of his fieldwork in Turkey, in the western Kurdistan. In his research, conducted on the border of the perspectives of anthropology and political science, he decided to compare the situation of the Kurdish people, the largest stateless ethnic group in Istanbul and Diyarbakir and the way in which they build their ethnic and national identity living in different places and in different environments. The author investigated how the Kurds preserve their ethnic customs and how they define their contemporary ethnic condition

Keywords

EN

Kurds; ethnical identity; national identity; Istanbul; Diyarbakir

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Prace Etnograficzne
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 223–230

Dates

published

2013

online

2013-09-03

Contributors

author

Szymon Knitter

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/22999558.PE.13.019.1360