| ID | 139306 |
| Title Proper | Wardrobe modernity |
| Other Title Information | Western Attire as a tool of modernization in Turkey |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kavas, Serap |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | To a social thinker who is used to dealing with macro aspects of sociopolitical phenomena,
the issue of clothing may sound trifling, or at best may be viewed as an insignificant detail of social life and thus be discounted as secondary. However, what are considered mundane issues may themselves be so heavily loaded and may bear such subtle and unique meanings that inattention to them may result in missing some very important insights allowing a much closer analysis of larger issues, such as the experience of modernization, in particular, in a non-western context. As Comaroff and Comaroff rightly put it, ‘Cultural revolutions usually rooted themselves on modest terrain, in simple acts of fabrication, use, exchange. Even the most elaborate social formations arise from such quotidian acts’. |
| `In' analytical Note | Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 51, No.4; Jul 2015: p. 515-539 |
| Journal Source | Middle Eastern Studies 2015-08 51, 4 |
| Key Words | Social Life ; Modern Turkey ; Late Ottoman Empire ; Wardrobe Modernity ; Western Attire ; Tool of Modernization ; Turkey
; Developmental Idealism ; Modernity in Turkey ; Republican Period ; Women’s Veiling |