<div class="gmail_quote">Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:23:11 -0400<br>From: Kimberly Hart <<a href="mailto:kilhart@gmail.com">kilhart@gmail.com</a>><br><br>I would like to share news of my recent publication: Modernliği Dokumak, published by Koç University Press, 2011.<br>
<br>The book would be especially useful for people teaching anthropology and sociology in Turkey.<br><br><a href="http://kocuniversitypress.com/books/modernligi+dokumak+bir+bati+anadolu+koyunde+hayat,+ask,+emek?lng=tr" target="_blank">http://kocuniversitypress.com/books/modernligi+dokumak+bir+bati+anadolu+koyunde+hayat,+ask,+emek?lng=tr</a><br>
<br>The book is a collection of articles previously published in English translated into Turkish. These comprise ethnographic research conducted in a village in western Anatolia in the Yuntdağ region, north of Manisa from 1998 to 2008. The village, Örselli, is famous for a women's carpet weaving cooperative and is a member of the DOBAG project, which promotes the use of plant dyes and indigenous design in handwoven all-wool carpets and cicims.<br>
<br>Articles cover the story of the foundation of the project in the early 80s, the collaborative work villagers experienced with expats Harald<br>Böhmer and Josephine Powell, transformations in notions of labor and gender in the cooperative's gradual decline as women weavers began to reassess the benefits and drawbacks of the development project, which does not provide them with sigorta, health and retirement insurance. Also included are pieces on transformations in love and marriage, including elopement vis-à-vis villager engagements with ideologies of romantic love and modernity, and moral questions associated with culturally Islamic practices. The chapters connect recent ethnographic theory to the experiences of village men and women.<br>
<br>Kimberly Hart (Ph.D. Indiana University 2005) is a social-cultural anthropologist who teaches at Buffalo State College in the Anthropology Department.<br><br>All the best,<br>Kimberly Hart<br></div><br>