Rules and resources: uses of the clan in the village of Kirazbahçe (Turkey)

The case study analyses the transformation of kinship usages in a Kurdish village in Turkey. Using the dialectic rules/resources, the author demonstrates how the clan [merev] became the dominant institution regarding security, social capital, alignment of votes etc. until the 70s. Since then, due to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilles Dorronsoro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient 2009-07-01
Series:European Journal of Turkish Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejts/615