Fragments of culture
Subtitle: the everyday of modern Turkey
By: edited by Deniz Kandiyoti & Ayşe Saktanber.
Contributors: Kandiyoti, Deniz.; Saktanber, Ayşe.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Turkey -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.; Turkey -- Social conditions.
Description: <">Writing from within the cultural landscape of modern Turkey, "Fragments of Culture" presents exciting new writing on the everyday, providing a corrective to the often skewed perceptions of Turkish culture engendered by conventional western critiques. From adjustments to religious identity as the Islamic veil becomes marketed as a fashion item to the media explosion of interest in Turkish transsexual lifestyle to the strained cross-class relations between comfortably-off apartment tenants and their more humble doorkeepers, "Fragments of Culture" focuses on the diversity of contemporary Turkish life. This book contributes to both modern Turkish studies and the scholarship and debates on cross-cultural perspectives in cultural studies in the Middle East.<">--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.