Istanbul Households - Marriage, Family and Fertility, 1880-1940

Zusammenfassung Istanbul Households is a social history of marriage! the family and population in Istanbul during the turbulent period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It combines the methods and approaches of social anthropology! historical demography and social history. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; List of figures; Note on calendars, weights and currency; Note on Turkish pronunciation and spelling; Acknowledgements; 1. Issues, scope and sources; 2. City, Mahalle, incomes and subsistence: social and economic framework; 3. Households and families: structure and flux; 4. Love and marriage: meanings and transactions; 5. Marriage age and polygyny: myths and realities; 6. Fertility and birth control: Istanbul's particularities; 7. Westernization and new family directions: cultural reconstruction; 8. Conclusion: civilizational shift; Glossary of Ottoman-Turkish terms; Sources and bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Cem Behar, Alan Duben, Alan Behar Duben
• Assisted by: Richard Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521523035
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52303-5
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Populatio
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918