Kolektif Kimlig Tezahürü Olarak Nasreddin Hoca Fikralari
Nasreddin Hoca Anecdotes as Manifestation of our Collective Identity

Summary/Abstract: Nasreddin Hoca anecdotes have been transmitted to and disseminated within a large terrain throughout the ages most probably because they make sense for people who keep listening to them, in turn help their survival. Nasreddin Hoca character in the anecdotes encompasses diverse human attitudes and characteristics to geography they belong to. These anecdotes reveal various dimensions of human experience, with all its capabilities and weaknesses, even with contradictory, incompatible elements, which imply an accumulation of experience historically attributed to Nasreddin Hoca character. This kind of diversity prevents identifying Nasreddin Hoca as stagnant, homogeneous character, but rather gives him a limited position, which is signaled by some sort of indifferent disobedience as a strategy that makes (...) the status quo possible, eliminating the risk of social sanction of penalty. These anecdotes neither signal the presence of a coherent Nasreddin Hoca identity as „an ideal“ nor indoctrinate a specific system of values or belief. Instead, they constitute a pool that encompasses manfold human experience which makes him worth studying.

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