“Smuggling a Dangerous Cargo” Discovery of a Hidden Treasure
“Smuggling a Dangerous Cargo” Discovery of a Hidden Treasure

Summary/Abstract: For those who have made the study of the folklore of the Turkish and Turkic world their focus, the name Professor Ilhan Başgöz is not unfamiliar. Professor Başgöz is among the best-known scholars of Turkish folklore. He has devoted his entire life to the study of folklore internationally and Turkish folkloric materials specifically. Professor Başgöz was among the handful of scholars who, while residing in America, could go to the Soviet Union in the 1960s during the cold war to carry out research on Turkic oral literature materials. Indeed, folklore scholars and researchers outside Başgöz’s country of his birth, Turkey, were aware of his work, especially those in Azerbaijan and the Turkic speaking world. His works have been published in the Journal of American Folklore and by the Turkish Studies Publication at Indiana University. Professor Başgöz’s Turkish Folklore Reader (1971)3 is a classic work for students of Turkish and international folklore.

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