Tribal and Kinship Relations in Kurds

Tribal and Kinship Relations in Kurds, based on Lale Yalçin-Heckmann's fieldwork in Hakkari, is the published form of her doctoral thesis in anthropology. This work, which is very bright and satisfying from an academic point of view, has a comprehensibility and a gripping fiction that will appeal to non-expert readers as well. The arms smuggling case described in the first chapter not only draws the reader into the "realities" of the region, but also gives clues to all the themes developed throughout the book. The relationship between the manifestations of the political system in the region and the dynamism of the local culture forms the cornerstone of the analyzes in the book. Various forms of identity, such as kinship, tribe and ethnicity, are discussed with all their flexibility in concrete conditions. After examining the historical, geographical and demographic conditions of the region, micro-level phenomena are investigated in depth: The use of tribal and kinship ties, villages and village households, the expansion of the terms kinship and kinship, marriage relations and strategies, gender roles, hierarchy and solidarity... Micro-level The author, who never sees the facts as completely independent of macro processes, takes care to evaluate concrete developments in all their dimensions and by placing them within the framework of complex relationship patterns. Thus, starting from its limited field of study, the book allows both comparisons to be made with similar phenomena in other societies and to think deeply about the methodological and theoretical issues of anthropology.



Number of Pages: 384

Year of Printing: 2002


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Yayincilik

Number of Pages: 384

First Edition Year: 2002

Language: Turkish