Entertainment among the Ottomans /

Entertainment among the Ottomans / / edited by Ebru Boyar, Kate Fleet.

Approaching Ottoman social history through the lens of entertainment, this volume considers the multi-faceted roles of entertainment within society. At its most basic level entertainment could be all about pleasure, leisure and fun. But it also played a role in socialisation, gender divisions, socia...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Boyar, Ebru,
Fleet, Kate,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (308 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Contributors
  • Ottoman Society through the Lens of Entertainment / Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet
  • Contemplation or Amusement? The Light Shed by Ruznames on an Ottoman Spectacle of 1740-1750 / Tülay Artan
  • Caravans and Voyages, Story and Song: Entertaining the Traveler in/to Ottoman Space / Palmira Brummett
  • Play and Performance in Ottoman Costume Albums / William Kynan-Wilson
  • Fun and Games in Ottoman Aleppo: the Life and Times of a Local Schoolteacher (1835-1865) / James Grehan
  • Between Tradition and Modernity – Entertainment in Late Ottoman Rusçuk / Svetla Ianeva
  • Public Celebrations and Ceremonies in the Late Ottoman Cretan Press: Building a Collective Identity among the Christian Population / Antonis Anastasopoulos
  • The Late Ottoman Brothel in Istanbul: a Heterosexual Social Space for Homosocial Entertainment? / Ebru Boyar
  • Bicycling into Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire: Ahmed Tevfik and his Bicycle Travelogue / Yavuz Köse
  • Muslim Culture, Reform and Patriotism: Staging Namık Kemal in Post-Ottoman Bulgaria (1878-1908) / Milena B Methodieva
  • Warriors in Drag: Performing Gender and Remaking Men in Prisoner of War Theater / Yücel Yanıkdağ
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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