About the Journal

History: Türk Folklor Araştırmaları is a monthly folklore journal published between August 1949 and January 1980.  The journal was founded by İhsan Hınçer and published 366 issues since then under the  editorship of Hınçer. After Bora Hınçer, the last editor of the journal, transferred the re-publication rights of the journal to Metin Karadağ, the journal started to be published online again as the publication organ of the TRNC Turkish Folklore Research Association (TRNC). 
Turkish Folklore Research (TFA) journal publishes original, methodological articles in the basic fields of folklore, anthropology, literature and other social sciences related to these fields in accordance with the aims, principles and scope of its establishment and publication processes. 

The journal is published twice a year in January and July. The language of DOI-registered articles in TFA, which is an open access journal with double-blind referee system, is Turkish and English. Manuscripts edited according to the rules and principles of the journal are submitted through the Article Tracking System on the journal website. For this and similar issues, please write to info@turkfolklorarastirmalari.com or tfadergisi@gmail.com.

Current Issue

No. 370 (2025)
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Published: 2025-01-08

Full Issue

Articles

  • The Blindness of the Ethnographic Gaze to Non-Human Animal Actors

    Erhan Korkmaz
    1-30
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.52

  • Master of Tradition Salim Yaşar in the Adventure of Production, Survival and Sustainment of Pottery

    Aslı Büyükokutan Töret
    31-55
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.40

  • Andrea Arnold’s Movie Cow and Its Autoetnographic Evocations

    Solmaz Karabaşa
    56-91
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.57

  • Traditional Knowledge Memory Regarding Agricultural Production Processes in the Turkish Folklore Research Journal

    Zeynep Nagihan Kahveci
    92-121
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.55

  • An Analysis of the Story of Arzu And Kamber Compiled From Minstrel Mustafa Aydın

    Tuğçe Coşkun
    122-168
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.50

  • A Comparative Look at the List of ICH in Need of Urgent Safeguarding of UNESCO Examples of Mongolia, Uganda, China and Türkiye

    Pınar Kasapoğlu
    169-190
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.45

  • An Anthropologist in the 11th Century: Al-Bîrûnî and Tahkîku'l Mâ Li’l-Hind

    Burcu Asena Salman
    191-215
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.42

  • An Evaluation on Women's Folklore Studies in Turkey Between 2014- 2024

    Tuğçe Özdemir
    216-239
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.51

Compilation article

  • Agricultural Production and Ecological Degradation in a Faith Village: Possibilities of Resistance

    METU Folklore Community
    240-273
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.61

  • Comparative Analysis of Three Common Works İdentified in Cyprus Folk Music And Turkish Folk Music

    Gizem Yücel; Şirin Karadeniz
    274-304
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.44

Editöre Mektup

  • The Contribution of Oral History to Local History Research

    Arzu Öztürkmen
    305-311
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.62

  • From the First Human to Today: From Ritual Dramas to Village Folk Plays

    Mevlüt Özhan
    312-319
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.56

Book Review

Activities - Events – Experiences

  • Reproducing Folklore: Following the Riçik (Geçitveren) Nature, Peace and Culture Event

    Sibel Taş
    328-336
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.48

  • Meeting of Traditional Values in Kırşehir: Ahilik Week

    Gamze Kılıç
    337-353
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.61620/tfa.49
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