Call for Papers:
The purpose of this study is to document competitions of all kinds in Turkic culture.
The documentation of the types of races (including the racing of animals), the organisation of races, the training of competitors, the location of races, referees, audiences, costumes of competitors, betting and cheating, asik competitions, munazara literature (it will be possible to publish full texts), terminology, the etymology of this vocabulary, records relating to races etc. come under the interest of this study.
You may approach the subject as a historian, anthropologist, philologist, folklorist, art historian...
If you would like to participate in this study/publication by submitting an article, please send me the title and a very brief summary of your article by 15 April 2009. The final date for the submission of the articles is 1 September 2009. The preferred
language for the articles is Turkish.
Prof. Dr. Emine Gursoy Naskali
Marmara University, Istanbul
eminenaskali@ gmail.com
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