Archaeology as a Source of National Pride in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic

Tanyeri‐Erdemir, Tuğba

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“…The theorization and implementation of a state initiated project to construct the nation was possible only after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Archaeological activities accelerated to accompany an ideological agenda in the service of constructing the Turkish national identity (Tanyeri-Erdemir, 2006).…”

Section: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınarmentioning

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The Knife’s Edge of the Present: Archaeology in Turkey from the Nineteenth Century to the 1940s

Dinler

2017

Int J Histor Archaeol

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This paper investigates how archaeology functioned in Turkey from the nineteenth century until the end of the 1930s. In the nineteenth-century Ottoman world, there raised an awareness to acknowledge the power of 'patrimony'. Amidst intense reforms to westernize the Empire, the archaeological artifacts were used as a means of European-ness. The Greek, Roman, and Byzantine past of the Ottoman lands were the focus of this era. The foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923 marked the start of a new project to create a modern nation-state out of a centuries old Islamic dynasty. This project rewrote the history of Turkish nation in relation with prehistoric civilization such as the Hittites and the Sumerians. Archaeology became the primary tool of the Republic to validate the renewed history.

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Section: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınarmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Knife’s Edge of the Present: Archaeology in Turkey from the Nineteenth Century to the 1940s

Dinler

2017

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…Kossinna (1919) used this to claim that Poland was 'an age-old Germanic homeland' (Figure 12.4), while in the 1930s, the Turks claimed that Anatolia had been settled by Turkish-speaking peoples from the Bronze Age onwards, and the Ottomans were simply the last Turkish tribe to arrive in an area already settled by their relatives (cf. Tanyeri-Erdemir 2006). If this was not possible, at least the locals could be characterised as newcomers as well.…”

Section: Colonialism and Conquestmentioning

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Key Concepts in Public Archaeology

2017

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This publication was made possible by funding from Jisc as part of the 'Institution as e-textbook publisher' project: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/institution-as-e-textbook-publisher.This book is dedicated to Tim Schadla-Hall who has led the teaching and study of public archaeology at UCL for two decades, and inspired and supported a generation of public archaeologists. vii AcknowledgementsThis book has been a long time in the making, and I must first express my thanks to everybody involved for their formidable patience. The collection of papers originates in the MA Public Archaeology at UCL, devised and taught over many years by Tim Schadla-Hall and others. Most of the contributors to this volume have taught on the MA course and several are graduates, while others carried out doctoral research within what is becoming known as the 'London school' of public archaeology. This is the appropriate place to acknowledge the leadership and vision of the late Peter Ucko, whose understanding of archaeology as a politically engaged practice entangled in everyday life gave rise to the teaching programme in public archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology at both undergraduate and graduate level, as well as the creation of the journal Public Archaeology, still hosted in that department. The Ucko tradition of public archaeology as both scholarship and practice has been maintained over the last two decades by Tim SchadlaHall, Neal Ascherson, Nick Merriman, Ulrike Sommer, Andrew Reid and many others in the Institute of Archaeology, and continues to this day. The publication of this volume has been guided with great patience and vision by Lara Speicher of UCL Press and her colleagues and I am grateful for their faith in the project. Public archaeology is founded upon the belief in breaking down divisions between professionals or academics and the wider world: UCL Press' commitment to Open Access publishing is a beacon in this broader campaign to share knowledge freely beyond the pay-walls and prohibitive prices of traditional elite academic publishing. Finally, my thanks to Maria Phelan and my family who have endured my moaning about this book for too long.

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“…Proponents of the Thesis recognized the need for corroborating evidence, and thus in 1933 a series of archaeological excavations commenced at explicitly prehistoric sites, as well as those of Hittite, Phrygian and other cultural origins, to demonstrate Turkey's relationship with these past mighty civilizations. A second Congress was held in 1937 with focus more on the empirical presentation of archaeological data than the theoretical nationalist theories that had prevailed at the previous Congress, and to an international audience of scholars (Atakuman 2008;Çiğ 1993;Shaw 2004;Tanyeri-Erdemir 2006). This paved the way for archaeological research across a range of periods and cultures to create a rich and diverse understanding of Turkey's pre-Ottoman heritage that is maintained today.…”

Section: Turkey and Its Classical Archaeologymentioning

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“…Most significantly, Atatürk embarked upon a sweeping revision of the history of Turkey to claim ancestry with the earliest inhabitants of Anatolia. This process was known as the Turkish History Thesis (Türk Tarih Tezi) and purported to demonstrate Turkish ethnic continuity in Anatolia since prehistoric times (Erimtan 2008;Tanyeri-Erdemir 2006;Gül 2006 notes that it continues today under less racial yet nevertheless essentialist narratives, which she refers to as the Anatolian Civilizations Discourse). Intellectual thinkers of the time argued that the root of national power was a national identity founded in national history (e.g.…”

Section: Turkey and Its Classical Archaeologymentioning

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5. Lycia and Classical Archaeology: The Changing Nature of Archaeology in Turkey

Hodos¹

2015

Classical Archaeology in Context

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Archaeology as a Source of National Pride in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic

Cited by 17 publications

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The Knife’s Edge of the Present: Archaeology in Turkey from the Nineteenth Century to the 1940s

The Knife’s Edge of the Present: Archaeology in Turkey from the Nineteenth Century to the 1940s

Key Concepts in Public Archaeology

5. Lycia and Classical Archaeology: The Changing Nature of Archaeology in Turkey

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