“Our Sacred Native Land”: Armenian Roots Tourism in Eastern Turkey
This article explores how Armenian roots tourists carve a “sacred native land” out of eastern Turkey through their journeys. It addresses the question of how they imagine and inhabit different understandings of homeland, sacredness, and nativeness while traversing several heritage sites that represe...
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Bibliothèque Nubar de l'UGAB
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Études Arméniennes Contemporaines |
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| author | Ayşenur Korkmaz |
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| description | This article explores how Armenian roots tourists carve a “sacred native land” out of eastern Turkey through their journeys. It addresses the question of how they imagine and inhabit different understandings of homeland, sacredness, and nativeness while traversing several heritage sites that represent the lost homeland “Ergir”, including Armenian churches and monasteries, battlefields and graveyards, natural landmarks, and ancestral homes. Now ground zero of contestation, these sites are transformed into a sacred realm by Armenian roots tourists through a set of narratives and rituals, which often mobilize origin stories, religious myths, and interpretations of violence and destruction in eastern Turkey. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-65150efa12014a55a538edbe420827222024-02-13T14:41:43ZfraBibliothèque Nubar de l'UGABÉtudes Arméniennes Contemporaines2269-52812425-16822021-08-0113497810.4000/eac.2410“Our Sacred Native Land”: Armenian Roots Tourism in Eastern TurkeyAyşenur KorkmazThis article explores how Armenian roots tourists carve a “sacred native land” out of eastern Turkey through their journeys. It addresses the question of how they imagine and inhabit different understandings of homeland, sacredness, and nativeness while traversing several heritage sites that represent the lost homeland “Ergir”, including Armenian churches and monasteries, battlefields and graveyards, natural landmarks, and ancestral homes. Now ground zero of contestation, these sites are transformed into a sacred realm by Armenian roots tourists through a set of narratives and rituals, which often mobilize origin stories, religious myths, and interpretations of violence and destruction in eastern Turkey.https://journals.openedition.org/eac/2410genocideArmenian roots tourismsacrednessnativenesshomeland |
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| title | “Our Sacred Native Land”: Armenian Roots Tourism in Eastern Turkey |
| title_full | “Our Sacred Native Land”: Armenian Roots Tourism in Eastern Turkey |
| title_fullStr | “Our Sacred Native Land”: Armenian Roots Tourism in Eastern Turkey |
| title_full_unstemmed | “Our Sacred Native Land”: Armenian Roots Tourism in Eastern Turkey |
| title_short | “Our Sacred Native Land”: Armenian Roots Tourism in Eastern Turkey |
| title_sort | our sacred native land armenian roots tourism in eastern turkey |
| topic | genocide Armenian roots tourism sacredness nativeness homeland |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/eac/2410 |
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