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Anatolia has played a crucial role as a crossroads for the evolution of terrestrial mammals throughout the paleogeographic history of the Eurasian and African faunas. The fossil record of equids is significant in tracing intercontinental dispersal patterns by contributing to the evaluation of evolutionary processes and biochronological correlations. Systematic studies on fossil Equidae taxons contribute to elucidating the connections between their functional anatomies, age distributions, the paleoenvironments of faunas, and regional climate changes. The Hipparion taxon, known as the three-toed horses of the Late Miocene, was first observed in the early Vallesian in Anatolia and exhibited significant diversity, especially during the Turolian. In this context, studying Anatolian faunas is notable for understanding Eurasian Hipparion evolution and for Equidae systematic paleontolog y studies. Hippotherium brachypus is known as the large hipparionine species of the Turolian and was first reported from Pikermi. This paper discusses the presence of the Hippotherium brachypus and the paleoenvironments of regions based on the systematics of maxillary specimens as well as isolated series collected from the Late Miocene mammal localities of Muğla-Yatağan-Şerefköy (MN12), Uşak-Eşme-Kemiklitepe (MN11-12), and Kütahya-Bayat (MN11-12). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses child-centred education in the frame of philosophy with children’s principles by approaching traditional theories about thought and language development in early childhood from a critical perspective. Firstly, the article suggests reframing the developmental stages of the child’s mind functions of Piaget regarding Vygotsky’s sociocultural approaches. In the following phases, alternative educational understandings are discussed according to brand-new works of contemporary philosophers like Bjorklund and Burman by touching upon individualism and individual differences of children in order to inquiry the effects of child-individuality in the creation of a new pedagogy. Philosophy for/with children methodology carries potentials in the ways of rethinking of early childhood period when individualism and socialization proceed simultaneously. In the pursuit of this linkage, this paper lastly underlines the possibilities of a new pedagogy around “a right to philosophy” by illustrating several practical experiences of a community of inquiry in the early childhood process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that humor should be taken seriously as it plays a key role in understanding larger issues such as gender relations, social interactions, power, and status in a society. Acknowledging its significance as more than a cultural object, the paper first focuses on the theoretical approaches to humor in anthropology and then constructs a conceptual framework by adding to these theories a new approach that treats the production, sharing and consumption of humor in daily life more effectively. Following this novel theoretical framework, humor interactions among women of a mountainous village of Yeniköy in the city of Muğla are analyzed by positioning them within the context of social and power relations in everyday life. The argument of the analysis is that humor creates a space of agency for the women of Yeniköy who occupy a marginal space in their society and that these women creatively manipulate humor as a tactic for resisting existing power structures. As anthropological studies of humor are increasing in the world, Turkish studies on humor are yet to discover the potential of humor in pointing out important dimensions of everyday life. This study aims to contribute to such studies in Turkey through an analysis of the physicality of humor and the way it resonates through the individual and social body through a long-term participatory observation, and a localized and experience-based investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting the whole world. The pandemic and its governance have been creating many problems such as ecological devastation, climate crisis, poverty and entrenched inequality more visible. Thinking about the question of how anthropology could contribute to the solution of these current problems, this paper scrutinizes activist anthropology. In this context this paper proceeds through three broad topics. In the first topic, a general evaluation is made on the limit of anthropology. This evaluation depends upon a strong distinction between anthropology and activism. Secondly, applied anthropology as a social problemsolving- oriented anthropological approach is discussed. The objective of discussing applied anthropology is to provide a basis for analyzing activist anthropology through similarities and differences between them. Finally, activist anthropology is examined. By this way, this paper aims at revealing the opportunity to turn anthropology into a public voice and responsibility, moreover a into a field of struggle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the issues influencing women’s Daily activities deeply is menstruation. Menstruation is a process having both biological and social impacts and experienced with cultural conditioning and within the framework of values. Although it is one of the important issues affecting women’s lives, it is an issue which concerns women, but it is also an issue expressed in cultural organisation, framed by such roles as avoidance, refrainment and embarrassment and behaviours are developed according to those roles in some cultures. This paper considers avoidance, refrainment and protection practices, which can be interpreted as taboos about menstrual period. Several applications, beliefs and practices have developed in the districts in relation to avoidance, refrainment and protection about the process of menstruation. Examples for the practices and the practices developed were reported by the participants interviewed. This study, which is based on field research, was conducted with 68 women who were aged between 18 and 73 in 2016 in Bozova, Eyyübiye and Harran districts of Şanlıurfa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Burial, for the dead individual, is created by the living. It is a compound of its architecture, fill, dead object, space, and time. Archaeotanatology is the determination of burial practices of the past societies, using different analytical methods and data from archaeological burials, skeletons/human bones. With analytical tools such as the interactive handling of archaeological contexts, the taphonomic analysis of the skeletonization process of the body and the chronology of the articulation of the bones forming the skeletal system, archaeotanatology suggests that these buried objects should be examined using a special method. French scientists Henri Duday and Claude Masse pioneered the establishment of the method in the 1980s. Today, it forms the basis of burial analysis in France, and its use is becoming widespread in European countries. In Anatolian Archeology, the method was first partially used in the field at Aşıklı and in the laboratory analysis of human remains unearthed at Çayönü Skull Building excavation. In recent years, the author of the article applied archaeotanatological methods in the analysis of burials unearthed from the Çemialo Ridge excavations within the scope of the Ilısu Dam Project, and Yenikapı, Pendik, Sirkeci, Sulukule, Beşiktaş and Haydarpaşa excavations in İstanbul. This paper focuses on the excavation and analytical tools of primary individual burials. Samples selected from different types of burials can also be used as a reference in the application of the method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a contact area about the sets of meaning which we call belonging, which turns itself on the axis of differing descriptions in every field of daily life. It is an effort to put writing individuals’ perspectives of readiness for sacrifice for safe zones specific to those sets of belonging. In other words, their perspectives of how they marginalize the unsafe zones. Efforts are made in this study to make sense of the methods of discovering how the areas, which are referred to as borders of community, are protected by using the data provided by visual anthropology. Having contact with those mysterious borders, which are sacred, meets great resistance. The data provided by visual anthropology in relation to the resistance minimise the contact. The research object of this study is the documentary “Hala” (Aunt) directed by Veysel Akşahin. It was chosen as the object of study due to the fact that it was away from fictionality. The documentary which was considered specifically as “Aunt Ihsan”, was divided into parts and analyzed thus, and then efforts were made to describe how the label “Aunt”, the image which develop performatively through İhsan Çolak, was assigned meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the environmental migrations has become a triggering factor nowadays as the result of climate change effects, the issue of migration is still controversial for the international poltics. It is estimated that by 2050 one in every 45 people in the world will be displaced by the impact of climate change. More than 143 million (around 2,8%) internal climate migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America could be forced to move within their own countries to escape the slow-onset disasters by the 2050. Therefore, it becomes a responsibility at the international level, however there is no concrete international law to protect the environmentally induced migrants. As both developed and developing countries are facing huge challenges they should, therefore, portray its urgency, depth and coordinated framework for addressing challenges with “hotspot”s to reduce their vulnerability to the impacts of environmental disasters and manage the risks. This paper tries to explain how big the problem is, what international liability lies on developed and developing countries in reducing risk, and the problems of environmentally induced migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In reconstructing the socio-cultural history of the child / childhood, children’s games and toys are among the most frequently used documents and objects of historical and cultural interpretation. Körebe (blind man’s bluff) is one of the children’s games with a long history and a wide geographical distribution which is encountered in qualified works such as compilation and monographs on children’s games in all regions of Anatolia. The compilation and monographs of children’s plays made in all regions of Anatolia, which are encountered in the quality of the game, körebe is a game with a long history and a wide geographical distribution. Körebe is a very familiar children’s game with its pattern, rules, areas and time. It is one of the regular group games that take place in the traditional classifications of children’s games, which are played indoors or outdoors, in designated areas (sometimes a circle, sometimes a room), regardless of gender. The content and basic characteristics of the play in Anatolian variations are mostly unchanged. The game, in terms of the role of the ebe in children’s games; körebe who gave his name to the game is the loser in a negative and punished role. The game continues to find new losers and the player who has not become the ebe is the winner. The origins of most children’s plays are known to derive from the ritualistic practices of the archaic period, bears traces of them, or continue with implicit elements that have survived to the present day. It seems difficult to relate to the ritual elements in this state of körebe game that we try to describe. Is that so? In this paper, we will try to discuss on the traces of the game which is called blind goat in many parts of the world and which is known as kör çepiç in some parts of Anatolia, is a ritual remnant hidden in social memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sourcing from the symbolic and interpretive approach of social anthropology and fostered by the symbolic interactionism and dramaturgical approach of sociology, anthropology of performance presents today an innovative and genuine theoretical framework for the interpretation of diverse cultural representations in everyday life. This paper thus aims to put forward the theoretical background, fundamentals, main issues, methodology, and boundaries of anthropology of performance. The main objective of this study is to question the reasons and aspects of the appropriation of a formerly stage and performing arts term by the discipline of anthropology to evaluate the representations of culture. Using the literature review methodology, this study in the first place examines thoroughly the concepts of Turner, who in fact constituted the grounds of anthropology of performance, followed by Schechner’s performance theory that inserts theatricality to everyday life, and the dramaturgical approach of Goffman. Secondly, the concept of performativity was analyzed within the construction of social reality. The article finally gravitates towards a comparative analysis between this discipline and sociology of performance. This study concludes that the concept of performance reveals as an effective and comprehensive term for the interpretation of identity and culture patterns, which have become more fragile and ambiguous than before amidst globalization and new information technologies, which are continuously represented and displayed in an interactional way in everyday life throughout different social milieu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Marya Antonina Czaplicka, who was born in 1884 in Warsaw, arrived in Britain in 1910 and studied with Charles C. Seligman in London School of Economics and Political Science. Unlike the other Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, who studied also with Seligman, Czaplicka continued her studies with another wellknown anthropologist Robert R. Marret in 1914-15. With the advantage of speaking Russian, Polish and English fluently, she organized a fieldwork in Siberia. She left many books and articles concerning the social structure of the region. Maria Czaplicka committed suicide and ended her life in Bristol in 1921. This paper both tracks the life and studies of Maria Czaplicka and examines her contribution and conceptual influence to social anthropology, Shamanism and Turkology. Czaplicka introduced the world of Siberia taken place mostly in the scope of Russia to English literature. She interpreted linguistic studies and historical developments besides political movements like Pan-Turkism and Pan-Turanism in a holistic view in terms of Turkology. But her most important conceptual influence was about Shamanism. Although some of her arguments are contradictive today, she brought some concepts such as arctic hysteria and transvestism on the Western shamanism studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Postmodernism has been instensively discussed after sixtees in the social sciences such as philosophy, art, literature, and anthropology. This study discusses the main elements of Renato Rosaldo’s anthropology who can be considered as one of the most significant representatives of postmodenism in anthropology. The aim of this paper is to put forward the elements in Rosaldo’s studies that can be considered within the postmodernism . First of all, Rosaldo, developed a critical perspective both on methodological and epistemological grounds against the classical anthropological way of dealing with culture within the postmodernist framework. Besides, he emphasized the need to attribute significance to the researcher's experiences both in and out of the field, just like the qualities of the culture under study and discourses of the people sharing that culture. In his writings, the methodological discussions on how the researcher should reflect his/her field experience in ones own work takes place to a great extent. In his later studies, Rosaldo moved his focus to a further undertanding of the globalization process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]