Nur Yalman facts for kids
Nur Yalman is a leading Turkish social anthropologist. He works at Harvard University as a senior research professor. He studies Social Anthropology and the Middle East.
Nur Yalman's Career
Nur Yalman finished high school at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey. This is one of Turkey's best private high schools. For his college degrees, he studied Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. His mentor was Edmund Leach. He did fieldwork in Sri Lanka. Fieldwork means living among people to learn about their culture. After Cambridge, Yalman joined the anthropology teachers at the University of Chicago. In 1960, he taught at Middle East Technical University. He also worked for the Turkish government. He was a special advisor for the new State Planning Organization. This group helped plan for the country's future. While at Chicago, he was the director for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He held this role from 1968 to 1972. Then, in 1972, he joined the teachers at Harvard University. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His first book, Under the Bo Tree, was about kinship (family ties) and marriage in Sri Lanka. Since then, his research has grown. He now studies religion and politics in Middle Eastern and Muslim cultures. He has written about many countries around the world. He has also done ethnographic fieldwork in Sri Lanka, India, Iran, and Turkey. Nur Yalman speaks many languages because of his wide research interests. These include Turkish, English, French, German, some Persian, Sinhalese, Italian, and Arabic. [1] He teaches classes on different theories of society. He also teaches about how societies change and become modern.
Published Works
- A Passage to Peace: Global Solutions from East to West. A Dialogue with Daisaku Ikeda. I.B. Tauris, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-84511-923-2
- Under the Bo Tree: Studies in Caste, Kinship, and Marriage in the Interior of Ceylon. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967.
- "On the Purity of Women in the Castes of Ceylon and Malabar," The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 93, No. 1 (Jan., 1963), pp. 25–58
- "On Land Disputes in Eastern Turkey" in Tikku, Girdhari L., and Von Grunebaum, G. E. Islam and its cultural divergence; studies in honor of Gustave E. von Grunebaum, edited by Girdhari L. Tikku, University of Illinois Press Urbana, 1971
- "De Tocqueville in India: An Essay on the Caste System," Man, New Series, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), pp. 123–131
- "The Structure of Sinhalese Healing Rituals," The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 23, Aspects of Religion in South Asia (Jun., 1964), pp. 115–150
