Browsing by Subject "Otherization"

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The image of the other in the fifteenth-century Christian and Muslim hagiographies
(2008) Nazlar, Nergiz
In the thesis we have aimed to examine the image of the other in fifteenthcentury Ottoman history. With this aim in mind, we have carried out our research focusing on the analysis of the image of the other both within the population of Orthodox Christians under Ottoman rule, and also within Ottoman society. We have argued that hagiographies and menakıbnames can be utilized as reliable historical sources for cultural-historical research. With this view we have examined eight Orthodox Christian neo-martyr hagiographies and two Ottoman menakıbnames from the fifteenth century (more specifically those of Şeyh Bedreddin and Otman Baba), in addition to Byzantine and Ottoman chronicles of the period. Three fundamental tasks are established as the focus of the thesis: who the other is, how the other is perceived, and what this process of otherization reveals about the prejudices, preoccupations, and concerns of the authors in relation to the broader world. Our analysis of the image of the other in fifteenth century Ottoman history shows that although the hagiographical and menakıbname sources were written from a religious perspective, how the other was perceived in this period had much more to do with political than theological motivations. The socio-religious antagonisms witnessed in these texts should thus be seen a result of the underlying political antagonisms arising in the fifteenth century, both within the Orthodox Christian populations under Ottoman rule and among the Muslim Ottoman population, rather than being treated in isolation as a strictly religious affair.
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"Temel Fıkraları"nda 'öteki'leştirme boyutu
(Geleneksel Yayıncılık, 2007) Sheridan, R. A. A.
Bu yazıda, çeşitli yazılı derleme kaynaklarından mümkün olduğunca farklı özelliklerini yansıtmaları amaçlanarak seçilen Temel fıkrası örnekleri ele alınacaktır. Bu inceleme sonucunda, ele alınan ve alınmayan çoğu fıkrada farklı dil kullanımı ve kıt akıllılığının vurgulanması yoluyla gülmece nesnesine dönüştürülen Temel fıkra tipi dolayımında, Türkiye’de, Lazlar özelinde Karadenizlilere yönelik belirli bir “tektipleştirme”, “ötekileştirme” ve bunlara bağlı olarak oluşan belirli bir “öteki” imajı ve toplumsal koddan söz edilip edilemeyeceği sorusu değerlendirilecektir.
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The tendency of otherization in the Turkish proverbs
(Milli Folklor Dergisi, 2005) Bingöl, B.
In the last decades, particularly in the field of social sciences the notion of "otherization" has been highly discussed. It has been seen that the tendency to "otherize" is a phenomenon highly common in the field of folklore, most particularly in the Turkish proverbs. In this context it is possible to see that "the other" has different qualities in different contexts. Ethnic, religious and geographic factors are the most dominant ones which forms the identity of "the other". Especially in the Turkish proverbs the foreigner is qualifed as "the other" and has generally negative implications. Most commonly "non-muslims" and the people who are not Turkish are called "the others". In another context it is seen that "the other" is thougt as the "enemy". In the international relations this rhetoric still influences the determination of "the other". In the last years it is witnessed that the belief of "the old enemy would never be a friend" has been used by the Turkish mass media as a reflection of the public opinion and the proverbs commonly used. It is seen that there are times when this tendency loses its validty. Especially in the rural places to define "the other" is more characteristic but in the urban places to otherize seems to be affected by the individualism. This study aims at analyzing the reflection of folkloric factors to the general stances of the folks and vice versa. It is possible to see the validity of the proverbs in the two parallel and at the same time opposite tendancies that the world is passing through during the last decades, globalization and the east-west tension provoked by the "clash of civilisations" thesis of Samuel Huntington.