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Photo: Courtesy of Paul
Stirling
Paul Stirling's 1965 monograph, Turkish Village,
has long stood as a classic account of social organization
in a traditional peasant community.
Fortunately, this work has been made accessible as a World Wide Web document
by the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing,
University of Kent at Canterbury.
Their holdings include
an electronic version of the 1965 edition,
(1994 Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing),
based on Stirling's 1949-51 fieldwork, and a broader project,
45 Years in a Turkish Village,
which includes more recent material.
The following sections discuss the Turkish peasant ethnographic material
as illustrative of features and principles of social organization
discussed in the University of Manitoba's
Kinship and Social Organization Tutorial (Schwimmer 1995).
General information on Turkey is available
from The Library of Congress,
Turkey: A Country Study.
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