Remembering through material culture: Local knowledge of past communities in a Turkish Black Sea Town
Middle Eastern Studies, cilt.39, sa.2, ss.179-193, 2003 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 39 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2003
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/714004514
- Dergi Adı: Middle Eastern Studies
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.179-193
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This article looks at the interaction between narratives and material culture in the study of the local history of Tirebolu, a small town on the Turkish Black Sea coast. It derived from a larger project which had a different focus. The original project began in 1994 and continued until 2000. During the first part of the project (1994-96), the focus was primarily on women's knowledge of domestic life at the turn of the century. The second part was undertaken during 2000, and looked at local knowledge, and the role of 'place' in the multiple ways of belonging to a certain locality. After interviewing a total of 32 people, as the manager of the project, I realized that there existed an interesting dialogue between places and people. The way narratives and material culture were interacting eventually became an inevitable methodological focus in the handling of both research projects.