عنوان

Istanbul Incorporated Minorities and the Market in the Grand Bazaar and İstiklâl Street

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انگلیسی

Istanbul Incorporated Minorities and the Market in the Grand Bazaar and İstiklâl Street

[Thesis]

Samuel Joseph Williams

Borneman, John

Princeton University

2016

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Committee members: Hammoudi, Abdellah; Rosen, Lawrence; Schayegh, Cyrus

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-46771-9

Ph.D.

Anthropology

Princeton University

2016

This dissertation provides a sociocultural portrait of two marketplaces in Istanbul: the Grand Bazaar, reputedly the world's oldest still-operating market, and ?stiklâl Street, the nineteenth-century boulevard once known as the Grande Rue de Péra. Sometime cosmopolitan hubs of an imperial capital with a non-Muslim majority, as Istanbul's population has quadrupled during recent decades, these marketplaces have emerged as spaces where diverse rural-to-urban migrants are attempting to incorporate themselves into a service sector in the grip of economic reform. Based on documentary sources, oral history, and two years fieldwork, I examine how commercial life has transformed in these marketplaces since the late twentieth-century, years which have seen the Grand Bazaar develop into one of the world's largest tourist sites and the nightlife market in Taksim become a crucible for youth subcultures, including an elaborate gay scene.

Cultural anthropology; Middle Eastern Studies

Social sciences;Markets;Social minorities;Turkey

Fowers, Beth

Borneman, John

Anthropology

Princeton University

1765204416; 10010760

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[Thesis]

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