The orthodoxization of ritual practice in western Anatolia
article 2009 Hart, Kimberley

TurksMiddle East > Middle East
The author discusses the changes in marriage rituals from a traditional form that involved dance ([n]davul[/n]) and music, particularly drumming ([n]zurna[/n]), to one only using religious for...

Love by arrangement
article 2007 Hart, Kimberley

TurksMiddle East > Middle East
In this article the author discusses changes in arranged marriages, which partly accommodates the romance of a modern style love match by allowing love to develop and be expressed during the e...

Performing piety and Islamic modernity in a Turkish village
article 2007 Hart, Kimberley

TurksMiddle East > Middle East
This article is another example illustrating the author's thesis of the dual nature--secular and sacred--of Turkish modernity (see documents nos. 21 and 22.) In this case, the author examines ...