Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
Biographic Data
| ID | 124599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mustafa Kemal |
| FAMILY NAME | Mirzeler |
| SIGNATURE | MIRZELER M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dagara Verbal Art
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro
Vera Radaslava (Demerec) Dyson-Hudson (1930-2016)
Investigating the Investigator
Narrating the Memories of Ermeni Mezalimi
In the last one hundred years, Western scholars have assembled a deep and varied record documenting Turkish violence aimed at Armenians. This record has prompted some Western scholars and politicians to characterize the World War I deportation of and attacks on Armenians as genocidal. In contrast, narratives preserved by families and in local culture that focus on violent acts committed by Armenians against Muslims (known as Ermeni mezalimi) gene…
Toward an Islamic Enlightenment
Islam and Social Change in French West Africa
Sean Hanretta's book examines a group of dissident Sufi mystics in colonial French West Africa, highlighting the role of religious leaders, mainly from marginal backgrounds, who shaped social movem
Performance and Social Construction of Historical Tradition
Performance and Social Construction of Historical Tradition: Memories of Vulnerable Ancestors." Journal of the African Literature Association, 7(2), pp. 3–36
Prince Twins Seven-Seven
Book Review| January 01 2013 Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America. By Henry Glassie. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. Pp. Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2013) 126 (499): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.126…
The Memory of Loss
Between 1988 and 1992, nearly a quarter of a million refugees and displaced Azeris from Nagorno Karabakh poured into various parts of Azerbaijan abandoning their homes and properties, leaving them to the Armenians who committed massacres against them. The narratives of these refugees sanctify their lost land, recounting memories of how this seminal ethnic conflict was orchestrated and escalated by the Russian military, which provided the Armenian…
Sorghum as a Gift of Self
The purpose of this paper is to present an interpretation of sorghum as the dominant metaphor of self among the Jie people, and the offering of sorghum to the Turkana women by the Jie women as a gift. The literature on food as self is extensive, emerging from various key theorists who have defined the field of food and the semiotics of food (Ohnuki-Tierney 1993; Parry 1985; Raheja 1988). These scholars are keenly aware of the symbolic utility of …
The Importance of Being Honest
Anthropologists pay considerable attention to the writing style, the construction of a text, and the question of ethnographic authority, particularly since Derek Freeman's critique of Margaret Mead's Samoa writings. Although the issue of representation of the history and culture of far-flung peoples in the form of the written report is a long and distinguished tradition in the field of cultural anthropology, the Freeman/Mead debates have raised a…
The Tricksters of Karamoja
Karamojong oral tradition provides several trickster characters such as the rabbit, the self-appointed moral guard. This rabbit pretends to defend the weak and the powerless, yet secretly steals from them, but in the end gets exposed for what it really is. Then there is the clever fox, which skilfully tricks people with its clever manipulations, convincing them that it is honest and upright, not unlike the rabbit, but then it too gets caught stea…
The Journey of Major Rayne on the Banks of Turkwell River
When I read The Ivory Raiders , I was intrigued by the plot of the story, the intention of the author, Major Henry A. Rayne, to document the intricate process of political assignment and colonial intervention in the “lawless chaos” of wild African landscape and make it accessible to European readers. The encounter transpired on the banks of the Turkwell River in northern Kenya Colony, bordering the western shores of Lake Rudolf (Lake Turkana), wh…
Guest Editor's Prelude
The Embodiment of the Voyage of Sir Vivian Fuchs to the South Island in the Elmolo Oral Tradition
This article explores the incorporation of the memories of Sir Vivian Fuchs's voyage to the South Island and the deaths of two of his expedition members in 1934 into the Elmolo's oral traditions. The incorporation of the memory of the voyage brought out a new meaning in the Elmolo oral traditions, transformed their identity, and epitomized their traditional memory. What made the memory of Fuchs's voyage flourish and enter into Elmolo oral traditi…
Reading Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes
It is hard to imagine so many contrasts united in one person, as are united in the Abyssinian character. Their character is like the nature around them-where precipices, cliffs, mountains and plains alternate among one another, and cold is mixed with tropical heat. If I allow myself a rather free comparison, this is how I would characterize the Abyssinian. He is talented and receptive, like a Frenchman. With his practicality, with the way he deal…
Oral Tradition of Origin as a Remembered Memory and a Repeated Event
This article examines the implicit meaning of the well-known Jie and Turkana oral tradition of origin known as Nayeche, as a remembered memory and a repeated event. The images of the remembered messages of the past event contained in the Nayeche oral tradition are reproduced through storytellers'representations of them. These representations are not simple fixed historical messages that are expressed explicitly, but they are active and interconne…
Islam and Politics in Kenya
Arye Oded. Islam and Politics in Kenya. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. ix + 236 pp. Map. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. According to Arye Oded, Kenya's five million Muslims constitute a key minority group in a Christian country. Oded examines the global complexities that have contributed to the emergence of militant Islam in in the 1990s, against the backdrop of an historical overview of the role of Islam …
The Emergence of Lake Rudolf as an Iconic Colonial Space
Lake Rudolf, which is also known as Lake Turkana, lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift Valley. It is primarily fed by the Omo River, which flows south from the Ethiopian highlands and sits in an inhospitable landscape of dormant volcanoes, wind-driven semidesert, and old lava flows. During the morning hours, strong gusts of wind usually blow from the east down the slopes of Mount Kulal and across the surface of the lake. This unrelenting win…
Rethinking African Politics
For political scientists, and particularly scholars and students of Africa, Crawford Young needs litde introduction. However, as he has now achieved an emeritus status at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, it is time to present his intimate understanding of African politics in the last forty years. Born in Philadelphia in November 1931, Young received his B.A, from the University of Michigan in 1953. He studied at the Institute of Historical R…
The History of Islam in Africa (review)
Levtzion, Nehemia, and Randall L. Pouwels. 2000. The History of Islam in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Curry; Cape Town: David Philip. 591 pp
The Formation of Male Identity and the Roots of Violence against Women
Pastoral politics in the northeast periphery in Uganda
Our aim in this article is to contribute to understanding the effects of firearms on the relationship between the state and pastoral communities in contemporary northeast Uganda. The Karamoja region has from early colonial times been a peripheral zone. Although successive post-colonial regimes have made episodic efforts to incorporate this zone more fully into Ugandan national space, relations between Karamoja and the centre remain distant and di…
Pastoral politics in the northeast periphery in Uganda
Our aim in this article is to contribute to understanding the effects of firearms on the relationship between the state and pastoral communities in contemporary northeast Uganda. The Karamoja region has from early colonial times been a peripheral zone. Although successive post-colonial regimes have made episodic efforts to incorporate this zone more fully into Ugandan national space, relations between Karamoja and the centre remain distant and di…
Oral Tradition of Origin as a Remembered Memory and a Repeated Event
This article examines the implicit meaning of the well-known Jie and Turkana oral tradition of origin known as Nayeche, as a remembered memory and a repeated event. The images of the remembered messages of the past event contained in the Nayeche oral tradition are reproduced through storytellers'representations of them. These representations are not simple fixed historical messages that are expressed explicitly, but they are active and interconne…
The Emergence of Lake Rudolf as an Iconic Colonial Space
Lake Rudolf, which is also known as Lake Turkana, lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift Valley. It is primarily fed by the Omo River, which flows south from the Ethiopian highlands and sits in an inhospitable landscape of dormant volcanoes, wind-driven semidesert, and old lava flows. During the morning hours, strong gusts of wind usually blow from the east down the slopes of Mount Kulal and across the surface of the lake. This unrelenting win…
Rethinking African Politics
For political scientists, and particularly scholars and students of Africa, Crawford Young needs litde introduction. However, as he has now achieved an emeritus status at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, it is time to present his intimate understanding of African politics in the last forty years. Born in Philadelphia in November 1931, Young received his B.A, from the University of Michigan in 1953. He studied at the Institute of Historical R…
Vera Radaslava (Demerec) Dyson-Hudson (1930-2016)
Sorghum as a Gift of Self
The purpose of this paper is to present an interpretation of sorghum as the dominant metaphor of self among the Jie people, and the offering of sorghum to the Turkana women by the Jie women as a gift. The literature on food as self is extensive, emerging from various key theorists who have defined the field of food and the semiotics of food (Ohnuki-Tierney 1993; Parry 1985; Raheja 1988). These scholars are keenly aware of the symbolic utility of …
The Tricksters of Karamoja
Karamojong oral tradition provides several trickster characters such as the rabbit, the self-appointed moral guard. This rabbit pretends to defend the weak and the powerless, yet secretly steals from them, but in the end gets exposed for what it really is. Then there is the clever fox, which skilfully tricks people with its clever manipulations, convincing them that it is honest and upright, not unlike the rabbit, but then it too gets caught stea…
Guest Editor's Prelude
The Embodiment of the Voyage of Sir Vivian Fuchs to the South Island in the Elmolo Oral Tradition
This article explores the incorporation of the memories of Sir Vivian Fuchs's voyage to the South Island and the deaths of two of his expedition members in 1934 into the Elmolo's oral traditions. The incorporation of the memory of the voyage brought out a new meaning in the Elmolo oral traditions, transformed their identity, and epitomized their traditional memory. What made the memory of Fuchs's voyage flourish and enter into Elmolo oral traditi…
The Formation of Male Identity and the Roots of Violence against Women
The Formation of Male Identity and the Roots of Violence against Women
Pastoral politics in the northeast periphery in Uganda
Our aim in this article is to contribute to understanding the effects of firearms on the relationship between the state and pastoral communities in contemporary northeast Uganda. The Karamoja region has from early colonial times been a peripheral zone. Although successive post-colonial regimes have made episodic efforts to incorporate this zone more fully into Ugandan national space, relations between Karamoja and the centre remain distant and di…
The History of Islam in Africa (review)
Levtzion, Nehemia, and Randall L. Pouwels. 2000. The History of Islam in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Curry; Cape Town: David Philip. 591 pp
The Emergence of Lake Rudolf as an Iconic Colonial Space
Lake Rudolf, which is also known as Lake Turkana, lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift Valley. It is primarily fed by the Omo River, which flows south from the Ethiopian highlands and sits in an inhospitable landscape of dormant volcanoes, wind-driven semidesert, and old lava flows. During the morning hours, strong gusts of wind usually blow from the east down the slopes of Mount Kulal and across the surface of the lake. This unrelenting win…
Rethinking African Politics
For political scientists, and particularly scholars and students of Africa, Crawford Young needs litde introduction. However, as he has now achieved an emeritus status at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, it is time to present his intimate understanding of African politics in the last forty years. Born in Philadelphia in November 1931, Young received his B.A, from the University of Michigan in 1953. He studied at the Institute of Historical R…
Islam and Politics in Kenya
Arye Oded. Islam and Politics in Kenya. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. ix + 236 pp. Map. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. According to Arye Oded, Kenya's five million Muslims constitute a key minority group in a Christian country. Oded examines the global complexities that have contributed to the emergence of militant Islam in in the 1990s, against the backdrop of an historical overview of the role of Islam …
Oral Tradition of Origin as a Remembered Memory and a Repeated Event
This article examines the implicit meaning of the well-known Jie and Turkana oral tradition of origin known as Nayeche, as a remembered memory and a repeated event. The images of the remembered messages of the past event contained in the Nayeche oral tradition are reproduced through storytellers'representations of them. These representations are not simple fixed historical messages that are expressed explicitly, but they are active and interconne…
Reading Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes
It is hard to imagine so many contrasts united in one person, as are united in the Abyssinian character. Their character is like the nature around them-where precipices, cliffs, mountains and plains alternate among one another, and cold is mixed with tropical heat. If I allow myself a rather free comparison, this is how I would characterize the Abyssinian. He is talented and receptive, like a Frenchman. With his practicality, with the way he deal…
The Journey of Major Rayne on the Banks of Turkwell River
When I read The Ivory Raiders , I was intrigued by the plot of the story, the intention of the author, Major Henry A. Rayne, to document the intricate process of political assignment and colonial intervention in the “lawless chaos” of wild African landscape and make it accessible to European readers. The encounter transpired on the banks of the Turkwell River in northern Kenya Colony, bordering the western shores of Lake Rudolf (Lake Turkana), wh…
Guest Editor's Prelude
The Embodiment of the Voyage of Sir Vivian Fuchs to the South Island in the Elmolo Oral Tradition
This article explores the incorporation of the memories of Sir Vivian Fuchs's voyage to the South Island and the deaths of two of his expedition members in 1934 into the Elmolo's oral traditions. The incorporation of the memory of the voyage brought out a new meaning in the Elmolo oral traditions, transformed their identity, and epitomized their traditional memory. What made the memory of Fuchs's voyage flourish and enter into Elmolo oral traditi…
The Importance of Being Honest
Anthropologists pay considerable attention to the writing style, the construction of a text, and the question of ethnographic authority, particularly since Derek Freeman's critique of Margaret Mead's Samoa writings. Although the issue of representation of the history and culture of far-flung peoples in the form of the written report is a long and distinguished tradition in the field of cultural anthropology, the Freeman/Mead debates have raised a…
The Tricksters of Karamoja
Karamojong oral tradition provides several trickster characters such as the rabbit, the self-appointed moral guard. This rabbit pretends to defend the weak and the powerless, yet secretly steals from them, but in the end gets exposed for what it really is. Then there is the clever fox, which skilfully tricks people with its clever manipulations, convincing them that it is honest and upright, not unlike the rabbit, but then it too gets caught stea…
Sorghum as a Gift of Self
The purpose of this paper is to present an interpretation of sorghum as the dominant metaphor of self among the Jie people, and the offering of sorghum to the Turkana women by the Jie women as a gift. The literature on food as self is extensive, emerging from various key theorists who have defined the field of food and the semiotics of food (Ohnuki-Tierney 1993; Parry 1985; Raheja 1988). These scholars are keenly aware of the symbolic utility of …
The Memory of Loss
Between 1988 and 1992, nearly a quarter of a million refugees and displaced Azeris from Nagorno Karabakh poured into various parts of Azerbaijan abandoning their homes and properties, leaving them to the Armenians who committed massacres against them. The narratives of these refugees sanctify their lost land, recounting memories of how this seminal ethnic conflict was orchestrated and escalated by the Russian military, which provided the Armenian…
Performance and Social Construction of Historical Tradition
Performance and Social Construction of Historical Tradition: Memories of Vulnerable Ancestors." Journal of the African Literature Association, 7(2), pp. 3–36
Prince Twins Seven-Seven
Book Review| January 01 2013 Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America. By Henry Glassie. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. Pp. Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2013) 126 (499): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.126…
Investigating the Investigator
Narrating the Memories of Ermeni Mezalimi
In the last one hundred years, Western scholars have assembled a deep and varied record documenting Turkish violence aimed at Armenians. This record has prompted some Western scholars and politicians to characterize the World War I deportation of and attacks on Armenians as genocidal. In contrast, narratives preserved by families and in local culture that focus on violent acts committed by Armenians against Muslims (known as Ermeni mezalimi) gene…
Toward an Islamic Enlightenment
Islam and Social Change in French West Africa
Sean Hanretta's book examines a group of dissident Sufi mystics in colonial French West Africa, highlighting the role of religious leaders, mainly from marginal backgrounds, who shaped social movem
Vera Radaslava (Demerec) Dyson-Hudson (1930-2016)
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro
Dagara Verbal Art
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