City,Family,History

The book in your hand brings together some of the articles written by Alan Duben over the last thirty years. In the articles that constitute the first part of the book, the results of the research carried out by the author in the slums of various cities of Turkey (Istanbul, Adana and Mersin) are presented by placing them in the context of theoretical issues on the subject: The relationship of the phenomenon of class formation in the neighborhood with different communities (especially Sunni and Alevi communities) and ties of citizenship. ; the social rationality of the process of owning a slum in the informal economy; The importance of family and kinship in Turkish cities and their connection with urbanization... Perhaps the most striking aspect of all these articles is that they reveal the continuities that maintain their influence in Turkish society, which is said to be changing rapidly. The articles in the second part deal with a subject on which little quantitative research has been conducted: Ottoman and Turkish households and families from a historical perspective. While Duben shows that the claim that households in Turkey were very crowded in the past and in rural areas is nothing more than a myth, he also examines the epistemological and methodological difficulties encountered in family history research and evaluates possible solutions to these problems. City, Family, History, in addition to illuminating the wide range of topics it covers, also attracts attention because it sheds light on the rich academic adventure of a social scientist who started his career as an anthropologist but felt more comfortable at the "interface" of anthropology, social history and demography.



Number of Pages: 222

Year of Printing: 2002


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Publishing

First Print Year: 2002

Language Turkish