Life in a Turkish village
By: by Joe E. Pierce.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Demirciler, Turkey.; Turkey -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 102.
Table of contents: title: Mahmud’s village. The circumcision -- The building of a house -- A marriage -- Learning to be a man -- Subsistence -- Digging a well -- The preparation of foods -- Leaving for the army -- The mosque school -- The Turkish bath -- The Kurban Bayram -- The Ramazan -- A birth and a death -- A partial ethnography. The village of Demirciler -- The Turkish language and culture -- The social structure -- Islam, a way of life -- Education -- Folklore and superstition -- Conclusion -- Suggested readings.