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Turkish University Students at a Folklore Competition, Istanbul, 1986
In a country of migrants, such as the new Republic of Turkey following the First World War, national identities had to be invented. Schooling, military service, and mass media were vital tools. Turkish radio, and later, television, propagated national folklore to assert common bonds and a sense of shared traditions. Folklore clubs took root in universities and high schools. Here we see a group of students in uniform regional dress, standing in orderly lines, waiting for the decisions of judges at a folk dance competition in Istanbul in 1986.
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Name: Turkish university students at a folklore competition, Istanbul, 1986.
Material: Unknown
Size: 949 x 615 pixels
Date: 1986
Place of Origin: Istanbul, Turkey
Location: Collection of Martin Stokes
Source and Registration#: Collection of Martin Stokes
Martin Stokes
Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford University
