Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies

Museology, when trained on Turkish folklore, asks how a living tradition—one built from oral storytelling, ritual practice, mythology, and ancestral custom—can be preserved, interpreted, and made accessible without being flattened into a static artifact. Scholars working at this intersection examine how museums and digital archives represent intangible cultural heritage, including the gendered social dynamics and belief systems that give Turkish folk practice its internal logic. A pressing open question is how virtualization and digitization change the meaning of a ritual or myth once it is extracted from its community context and placed behind a screen or a glass case. Researchers are also tracing the entanglements between folklore and everyday material life—such as the documented uses of specific plants in folk medicine—to understand how local knowledge systems persist, adapt, or erode under modernization.

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FolkloreTurkish CultureRitualsMythologyTraditional BeliefsAncestral Customs