Nur Yalman

Professor of Social Anthropology and of Middle Eastern Studies,
Department of Anthropology
Senior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Member of the Board of Trustees, Koc University, Istanbul,  Turkey
Member of the American Academy of Atrs and Sciences,
Member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of the UK,
Member of the Association of Social Anthroplogists
Keynote Speaker for the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Japanese
Ethnological Society, Osaka
Member of Special Commission, Create 21, of Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo
Honorary Doctorate, Soka University, Japan 1993
Medal of Highest Honors, Soka University, Japan, 1992
Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1967
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, England, 1966-67
Advisor on Social and Economic Matters to the Prime Minister, Turkey,
1960
Member of Commission for State Planning Agency, 1960
 Education
B.A., Robert College (1950)
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Cambridge (1950-1958)
M.A. Harvard University - Philosophy of Anthropology (1972)
Fields of Concentration
Middle East, South Asia, S.E.Asia, Japan
Social Theory;  Political, Religious and Social Institutions; Structure
and Symbolism
Courses Taught
Thought and Change in the Modern Middle East
Religion and Modernization: Cultural Revolutions and Secularism
Social Theory and Social Anthropology
Structure and Dialectics
The Politics of Modernization in the Middle East
Society and Religion in South Asia: Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam
New Directions in Political Thought in Islam in Asia
Selected Publications
Under the Bo Tree, University of Chicago Press, 1967.
"On Secularism and Its Critics:  Notes on Turkey, India and Iran,"
Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.)25,2.  Sage Publications, New
Delhi, London, 1991.
"Some Observations on Secularism in Islam: or the Cultural Revolution in
Turkey," Daedalus, 1973; reprinted in Post-Traditional Societies, ed.,
S.N. Eisenstadt, Norton, 1972, 139-69.
Review Article: Playing Chess with Unusual Cats: Levi-Strauss, Claude,
American Ethnologist, 23(4):901-903, 1996.
"The Raw: the Cooked: Nature: Culture: Observations on Le Cru et le
Cuit", in The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism, ed., E. Leach,
Tavistock Publications, London, 1967.
"On the Purity of Women in the Castes of Malabar and Ceylon", awarded
the Curl Bequest Prize of the R.A.I. for 1962, Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute (London), Vol. 93, 1963.
"On Land Disputes in Eastern Turkey," in Islam and its Cultural
Divergence, ed., G. Tikku, University of Illinois Press, 1971.
"The Reform of Religious Institutions in Turkey," in Turkey and the
Maghreb, SSRS, vol., ed., P. von Sievers, 1983.
"Cultural Transpositions of Creativity," Comparative Literature Studies,
17(2), June, 1980, Part 11.
"Ataturk:  Hero, Nation Founder, Reformer," in Turkey Today, May, 1982.
 Languages
Turkish, German, French, (fairly fluent) Sinhalese
Also some Persian, Italian, and Arabic
Significant Travel
India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Egypt,
Lebanon, Qatar, Turkey, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece,
Serbia and Montenegro, Russia, Spain, Morocco, Norway, Sweden, Russia,
Mexico
 Editorial Board of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
Editorial Board of RES:  Anthropology and Aesthetics
Council of Foreign Relations
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain