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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Shankland, David,
• MitwirkendeR: Shankland, David,; Çetin, Atila,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463225933; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463225933
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Shankland.

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