THE PROBLEM OF INEFFICACY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN TURKEY AND TEACHERS / TÜRKİYE’DE ANTROPOLOJİK BİLGİNİN YETERSİZLİĞİ SORUNU VE ÖĞRETMENLER
Anthropology, like archeology and history, was a science that was supported by Turkish Republic, in accordance with the process of nation-state construction and the programme of westernization, in 1920’s and 1930’s in Turkey. In Early Republic era, anthropology, studied in mainstream pozitivist a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cyprus International University
2016-08-01
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| Series: | Folklor/Edebiyat |
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| Online Access: | http://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/1241479903_fe%2087-1.pdf |
| Summary: | Anthropology, like archeology and history, was a science that was supported by Turkish
Republic, in accordance with the process of nation-state construction and the programme
of westernization, in 1920’s and 1930’s in Turkey. In Early Republic era, anthropology,
studied in mainstream pozitivist and racist paradigm of Europe, translated into Turkish, as a
racescience. However after Second World War, anthropology confronted its past and gotout
of that paradigm and headed towards universal and culturalrelativism yet the same rapid
changes were not observed in Turkey anthropology, due to reasons arising from internal
political developments. Since 1990’s, in connection with the general change process of
capitalism, although social/cultural anthropology has gradually attracted the attention of
the students and the people in Turkey, compared with other socialsciences, it is still the
least known science. Hence we are in an age in which we witness an increasingly interest
to anthropology in every professional field whose subjects are humanfrom psychology to
medicine, from politics to art. In this context, teachers’ lack of anthropological knowledge
and perspective is a major problem. This article aims at to show why and how teachers must
utilise more from anthropology. |
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| ISSN: | 1300-7491 1300-7491 |