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Author:   Yael Navaro-Yashin
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.539kg
ISBN:  

9780691088440

ISBN 10:   0691088446
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   21 April 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780691088457
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Language:   English

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Semiconscious States: The Political and the Psychic in Urban Public Life 1 Entering the City 1 Secularism in Public Life 6 The Turkish Astronomer and the Little Prince 8 The Construction of Turkish Culture 10 The Anthropology of Turkey 12 The Not-Too-Native Anthropologist 13 Researching the Political 15 PART I: CULTURAL POLITICS 17 1. Prophecies of Culture: Rumor, Humor, and Secularist Projections about Islamic Public Life 19 The Native 19 Tales of Nightmare 22 Rumor or Reality? 29 The Issues at Stake 36 The Prophecy 40 Public Life and the Construction of Local Culture 42 2. The Place of Turkey: Contested Regionalism in an Ambiguous Area 44 Turkey as Sign 44 The History of Region 46 Beheadings in Saudi Arabia 51 Joining the Customs Union 55 The Place of Turkey 58 The Contest over Region 65 The Middle Eastern Woman 67 Undoing Area Studies 73 3. The Market for Identities: Buying and Selling Secularity and Islam 78 Consuming Culture 78 The Veil as a Commodity 82 Secularist Commodities 85 Istanbul's New Marketplaces 90 The Islamist Department Store 94 The Trademark of Islam 98 The Force of Symbols 107 The Market for Identities 111 PART II: STATE FANTASIES 115 4. Rituals for the State: Public Statism and the Production of Civil Society 117 The Soldier's Farewell 117 The Wrestler as Leviathan 122 The Flag Campaign 127 Does Civil Society Exist? 130 The Transparent Reflection of Society 137 A Holiday of the People 144 The Agency of Society 152 5. Fantasies for the State: Hype, Cynicism, and the Everyday Life of Statecraft 155 Does the State Exist? 155 Mundane Cynicism 166 The Truck That Crashed into the State 171 The Magnetism of State Crime 180 The Afterlife of the State 183 6. The Cult of Ataturk: The Apparition of a Secularist Leader in Uncanny Forms 188 Like a Cross That Stops the Devil ... 190 Visits to a Saint's Tomb 191 Mystical Apparitions 193 Calling Spirits 194 Numerology 195 Statues and Idols 196 Heads of State 199 Secularist Excesses 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 231 Index 241

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A provocative and sophisticated analysis of value to regional specialists and scholars interested in the nature of the state. Choice Navaro-Yashin's highly innovative use of an ethnographic approach to establish evidence to support her two major arguments--concerning the shared political culture of secularists and Islamists and the regeneration of the state through the margins--is extremely successful. A welcome addition to the ethnography of Turkey, this study will be also of use to readers interested in debates on civil society, the public sphere, nationalism, and subjectivity. -- Leyla Neyzi Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute

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Yael Navaro-Yashin is University Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University.

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