Anthropological Studies and Insights

The Turkish History Thesis of the 1930s played an influential role in the construction of the discipline of archaeology in the early years of the Turkish Republic. The Thesis argued that the Turks belonged to a high culture that brought civilization to many parts of the world through episodes of migration from their o…

Abstract In ‘top down’ conceptualizations of globalization, people often enter the analytical picture merely as resisters to globalization or as receivers of corporate produced goods, messages and ideas. This article, in contrast, focuses on a process in which ‘ordinary’ people are the active makers of global processe…

• HATİCE DENİZ YÜKSEKER TEKİN

This edited volume collects valuable essays on a fashionable trend across the world: modest dressing. Rarely viewed as a fashion, modest attire is now part of a global industry for Muslim, Christia...

The Gezi Park demonstrations that took place from June 2013 onwards across Turkey generated widespread interest and coverage. The lack of public consultation regarding the park's future, coupled wi...

• PINAR ERTÖR AKYAZI

The Gezi Park demonstrations that took place from June 2013 onwards across Turkey generated widespread interest and coverage. The lack of public consultation regarding the park's future, coupled wi...

• IRMAK ERTÖR

This chapter discusses how religious belief emerges as a byproduct of 'highly structured' systems, or preexisting adaptations in the social world.It starts by presenting evidence that argues that the universals of religion exist because of the general habits of the human mind: The thought of having 'agents and designe…

• OSMAN ZAHİD ÇİFÇİ

Anthropological studies have paid too little attention to the everyday experience of traffic, a fact all the more striking given the central place that traffic has come to occupy in urban life worldwide. I submit that the daily experience of traffic is a critical and underutilised medium for examining social inequalit…

• BERNA YAZICI TEPEYURT

Abstract This article gives a broad review of the literature focusing on food, senses, and intercultural relations. Integrating cultural studies literature and concepts into ethnic food studies, it tries to understand the ways in which ethnic food becomes an agent of social change and helps to build, promote, and impr…

Marketing and consumer research literatures have been enriched through a growing interest of academics and practitioners for poverty research, which have mostly focused on describing the life and culture in poverty and the coping strategies of the poor. In this study, we go one step further, showing how low-income con…

• DİCLE YURDAKUL

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This article offers an anthropological outline of immanent critique in Islamic traditions. In addressing the question — what is immanent critique? — it dwells on the interrelationships amongst the Enlightenment’s notion of reason, critique, and Islam. My main contention is that to construe the Western notion of critiq…

On 31 May 2013, what began as a localised demonstration against the demolition of a public park in Istanbul escalated into anti-government protests of unprecedented form and scale in Turkey’s modern history. The class configuration of the Gezi Park events occupied the forefront of discussions within and outside the Tu…

• EFE CAN GÜRCAN