BORATAV ARCHIVE
Pertev Naili Boratav, an outstanding Turkish scholar engaged in folkloric research, bequeathed his archive, undoubtedly one of the most valuable collections of written sources for oral culture to be compiled in Turkey, to the Information-Documentation Centre of the History Foundation, where it has been housed since his death in March 1998.
 The "Boratav Archive Project" undertakes to make available to researchers a collection of some 80,000 pages of notes and material related to almost every field of folklore, such as tales, folk poetry, popular drama, ethno-botany, folk medicine and astronomy, songs, "tekerleme" (repartee), poems, anecdotes and proverbs, as well as visual and audio material gathered from many regions of Turkey. The catalogue of this material can be accessed via our web site, under IDC (http://www.tarihvakfi.org.tr/bbm/perborarsiv.asp). Out of the twenty volumes of Boratav's works scheduled to be published, Halk Edebiyati Dersleri (A Course on Folk Literature), Tekerleme (Repartee), Izahli Halk Siiri Antolojisi (Anthology of Folk Poetry with Explanatory Notes) and Masallar-I: Uçar Leyli (Flying Leyli) have already appeared with Ministry of Culture's support.
JOSEPHINE POWELL ARCHIVE
Josephine Powell, an outstanding photographer and ethnologist, who settled in Turkey in 1974 and through the years 1974-1994 visited a large number of Anatolian villages and Yörük settlements, has made a bequest of her archive to the History Foundation, to be made available to researchers. The archive contains some 35,000 slides, ethnographic objects and publications collected by Ms. Powell and constitutes an extremely valuable collection on Anatolian folk culture. |
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