Dengbêj – a Kurdish resistance yell

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2021.175241

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Dengbêj, Kurdish song, Diyarbakir, Kurdistan

Abstract

This photo essay was accomplished in the Diyarbakir city, in the Turkish Kurdistan, and portrays the Dengbêj, the principal cultural practice of the Kurdish people, which aims to transmit their language, myths and histories through generations. In a country where the idiom is forbidden even at schools, the Dengbêj practice, even institutionalized (since 2007, when was founded the Dengbêj House), is an act of resistance of the Kurdish people, because through these songs the Kurdish language lives and resists.

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Author Biography

  • Kelen Pessuto, Universidade de São Paulo

    Kelen Pessuto is a filmmaker, Master of Arts at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo and FAPESP scholarship holder. Researcher at GRACIAS (Grupo de Antropologia em contextos islâmicos e árabes), GRAVI (Grupo de Antropologia Visual) and NAPEDRA (Grupo de Antropologia, Performance e Drama). Member of CRIA (Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia) – Portugal. E-mail: kelen.novo@hotmail.com

References

Pessuto, Kelen. 2017. Made in Kurdistan: Etnoficção, infância e resistência no cinema curdo de Bahman Ghobadi. Tese de doutorado, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo.

Reigle, Robert F. 2013. A brief history of Kurdish music recordings in Turkey. Hellenic Journal of Music, Education and Culture. Vol. 4.

Scalbert-Yücel, Clémence. 2009. The Invention of a Tradition: Diyarbakır’s Dengbêj Project. European Journal of Turkish Studies 10/2009. http://ejts.revues.org/4055 (acessado em 08/04/2015).

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Published

2021-04-22

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021)

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Gesture, image and sounds

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Pessuto, Kelen. 2021. “Dengbêj – a Kurdish Resistance Yell”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 6 (1): e-175241. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2021.175241.