The Hemshin
Subtitle: history, society and identity in the highlands of northeast Turkey
By: edited by Hovann H. Simonian.
Contributors: Simonian, Hovann H.
Series: Caucasus world -- Peoples of the Caucasus
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Hemshin -- Turkey -- History.; Armenians -- Turkey -- History.; Muslim converts -- Turkey -- History.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Morale, cohesion and power in the first centuries of Amatuni Hamshen / Anne Elizabeth Redgate; title: 2. Hamshen before Henshin : the prelude to Islamicization / Hovann H. Simonian; title: 3. The manuscript painting of Hamshen / Christina Maranci; title: 4. Hemshin from Islamicization to the end of the nineteenth century / Hovann H. Simonian; title: 5. Ottoman political and religious elites among the Hemshin : the mid-nineteenth century to 1926 / Alexandre Toumarkine; title: 6. Interactions and mutual perceptions during the 1878-1923 period : Muslims of Armenian background and Armenians in the Pontos / Hovann H. Simonian; title: 7. Notes on the historical geography and present territorial distribution of the Hemshinli / Hagop Hachikian; title: 8. Social and economic structures of the Hemshin people in Çamlihemşin / Erhan Gürsel Ersoy; title: 9. Hemshin folk architecture in the Akbucak, Ortayol and Ǔgrak villages of the county of Pazar in Rize / Gülsen Balikçi; title: 10. Homshetsma : the language of the Armenians of Hamshen / Bert Vaux; title: 11. Armenian in the vocabulary and culture of the Turkish Hemshinli / Uwe Bläsing; title: 12. Some particulars of Hemshin identity / Hagop Hachikian; title: 13. The Hemshin people : ethnic identity, beliefs, and yayla festivals in Çamlihemşin / Erhan Gürsel Ersoy; title: 14. Hemshinli-Lazi relations in northeast Turkey / Ildikó Bellér-Hann; title: 15. Turks and Hemshinli : manipulating ethnic origins and identity / Rüdiger Benninghaus