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Structure and Function in Turkish Society : Essays on Religion, Politics and Social Change / David Shankland.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish StudiesPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (255 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781617191404
  • 9781463225933
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 290
LOC classification:
  • BP173.7 .S536 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- 1. Structure and function in Turkish society -- 2. Islam, politics and democracy in Turkey -- 3. The demise of Republican Turkey's social contract? -- 4. Integrating the rural: Gellner and the study of Anatolia -- 5. Social change and culture: responses to modernization in an Alevi village in Anatolia -- 6. Anthropology and ethnicity: the place of ethnography in the new Alevi movement -- 7. Changing gender relations among Alevis and Sunnis in Turkey -- 8. Studying secularism: modern Turkey and the Alevis -- 9. The Open Society and Anthropology: an ethnographic example from Turkey -- 10. Gellner and Islam -- 11. Culturalism and social mobility: an Alevi village in Germany -- 12. Ritual transfer and the reformulation of belief amongst the Turkish Alevi community in Europe -- 13. Uneasy capitalism -- 14. Inspired restraint: Development and the rural community -- 15. An interview with Professor Paul Stirling
Summary: This collection of essays by David Shankland explores Turkish political and religious issues from a social anthropological perspective.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- 1. Structure and function in Turkish society -- 2. Islam, politics and democracy in Turkey -- 3. The demise of Republican Turkey's social contract? -- 4. Integrating the rural: Gellner and the study of Anatolia -- 5. Social change and culture: responses to modernization in an Alevi village in Anatolia -- 6. Anthropology and ethnicity: the place of ethnography in the new Alevi movement -- 7. Changing gender relations among Alevis and Sunnis in Turkey -- 8. Studying secularism: modern Turkey and the Alevis -- 9. The Open Society and Anthropology: an ethnographic example from Turkey -- 10. Gellner and Islam -- 11. Culturalism and social mobility: an Alevi village in Germany -- 12. Ritual transfer and the reformulation of belief amongst the Turkish Alevi community in Europe -- 13. Uneasy capitalism -- 14. Inspired restraint: Development and the rural community -- 15. An interview with Professor Paul Stirling

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This collection of essays by David Shankland explores Turkish political and religious issues from a social anthropological perspective.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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