From Constantinople to Istanbul
Asian Folklore Studies, cilt.61, sa.2, ss.271-294, 2002 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 61 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2002
- Doi Numarası: 10.2307/1178974
- Dergi Adı: Asian Folklore Studies
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.271-294
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Epic, Folk medicine, Folk religion, Istanbul, legend, Lullaby, Proverb
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This article explores the folklore of Istanbul at the end of the nineteenth century, based on two written sources: Folklore de Constantinople (1894) by Émile Henry Carnoy and Jean Nicolaïdès, and İstanbul Folkloru (1947) by Mehmet Halit Bayn. Focusing on the nineteenth-century Istanbul data, these two sources merge the themes of "Istanbul" and "folklore" from different perspectives. Folklore de Constantinople covers an assortment of diverse legends and stories, mostly of non-Muslim origins. These stories are related to different places in Istanbul before and after the Ottoman conquest. İstanbul Folkloru, however, gives a survey of a variety of folklore genres from the nineteenth-century Muslim life ol the city. It presents a composite picture of the culture of "Istanbulism," or of belonging to Istanbul (İstanbulluluk), when the city made a transition from the late Ottoman period to the early Republican era. The article will first locus on the content of each work, with references to contemporary Istanbul and the concept of Istanbulism. It will then try to evaluate these sources from the point ol view of modern folkloristics, suggesting new openings for studying the folklore of contemporary Istanbul.