Goods and Gaiety in a Turkish Black Sea Town: Oral History of Women in Tirebolu
The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture, Taylor & Francis Ltd, ss.138-155, 2024
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2024
- Doi Numarası: 10.4324/9781003152712-12
- Yayınevi: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.138-155
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This chapter explores the everyday life practices among women in Tirebolu, a small town in the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey, during the early Republican times (1920s–1950s), focusing on their perception of consumption, savings, and leisure. By following an oral history approach, I aim to delineate unrepresented aspects of local history while also situating Tirebolu within a broader regional – and even global – framework. Tirebolu is a town whose material culture and demographic structure have radically changed since the 1900s through the effects of war, harsh climate, nation-building processes, and the forces of modernization. Compared to the nearby cities of Trabzon, Batumi, or Samsun, it had a small economy that consisted of fishing, copper mining, and hazelnut farming, which allowed for a prosperous and lively social life from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries (Sümer 1992).