"Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey
By Yael Navaro-Yashin
* Publisher: Princeton University Press
* Number Of Pages: 264
* Publication Date: 2002-04-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0691088454
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780691088457
Product Description:
Faces of the State is a penetrating study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. In this new contribution to the anthropology of the state, Yael Navaro-Yashin brings recent poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory to bear on the study of the political. Delving deeper than studies of nationalist discourse that would focus on consciously articulated narratives of political identity, the author explores sites of "fantasy" in the public-political domain of Istanbul. "
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