Entertainment among the Ottomans / edited by Ebru Boyar, Kate Fleet.
"Approaching Ottoman social history through the lens of entertainment, this volume considers the multi-faceted roles of entertainment within society. At its most basic level entertainment could be all about pleasure, leisure and fun. But it also played a role in socialisation, gender divisions,...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Ottoman society through the lens of entertainment / Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet
- Contemplation or amusement? The light shed by Ruznames on an Ottoman spectacle of 1740-1750 / Tulay Artan
- Caravans and voyages, story and song : entertaining the traveler in/to Ottoman space / Palmira Brummett
- Play and performance in Ottoman costume albums / William Kynan-Wilson
- Fun and games in Ottoman Aleppo : the life and times of a local schoolteacher (1835-1865) / James Grehan
- Between tradition and modernity : entertainment in late Ottoman Ruscuk / Svetla Ianeva
- Public celebrations and ceremonies in the late Ottoman Cretan press : building a collective identity among the Christian population / Antonis Anastasopoulos
- The late Ottoman brothel in Istanbul : a heterosexual social space for homosocial entertainment? / Ebru Boyar
- Bicycling into modernity in the late Ottoman Empire : Ahmed Tevfik and his bicycle travelogue / Yavuz Kose
- Muslim culture, reform and patriotism : staging Namik Kemal in post-Ottoman Bulgaria (1878-1908) / Milena B. Methodieva
- Warriors in drag : performing gender and remaking men in prisoner of war theater / Yucel Yanikdag.