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Publication Metadata only How does a protest last? rituals of visibility, disappearances under custody, and the Saturday Mothers in Turkey(Wiley, 2022) N/A; Can, Başak Bulut; Faculty Member; N/A; 219278Organizing weekly silent sit-in protests since the mid-1990s, the families of the disappeared created Turkey's longest-lasting civil disobedience movement, known as the Saturday Mothers. Ritualizing their resistance, the group maintained the feeling of solidarity among its participants, attracted spectators, and ensured public visibility. Yet, as this protest form became popular, the participants felt uncomfortable with how they were represented in the wider public, especially how they were reduced to the spectacle of suffering in official and popular discourses. Thus, they often found themselves grappling with the tension between their desire to become visible and their refusal to be represented as a public spectacle of mothers' suffering. Rather than solely focusing on material and spiritual resources of the movement, activists' meaning-making processes, or the state's tactics to end the movement, this article introduces the analytics of ritual and spectacle to highlight the ongoing negotiations between protestors' subjectivity, collective action, popular representations of the protest, and state violence. The productive tension between ritualized protest and its spectacularized lives suggests a need to revise anthropological theories about progressive social movements that juxtapose the hidden versus public, the individual versus collective, and the institutionalized versus spontaneous forms of resistance.Publication Metadata only The rashomon effect: considerations for existential anthropology(Taylor and Francis, 2015) N/A; Yalman, Nur; Faculty Member; N/A; N/AThough Rashomon was first screened in 1950, it hit the ordinary popular cinemas in the West in the early 1950s, when Japanese culture was still strange to outsiders. The film’s searching exploration of what is taken to be real and true during an exotic incident in the mountains of medieval Japan, became a suggestive metaphor for the uncertainties facing the generations after the horrendous bloodletting in the war in China and the rest of Asia. Rashomon reminded us that what appeared to be realities could be unmasked, and that human action was capable of multiple interpretations. In the way Kurosawa presented the events in that ill-fated forest grove in ancient Japan, there was an almost Buddhist sense of maya, reality as illusion. When I saw Rashomon for the first time about 1960, I had myself recently returned from years of anthropological fieldwork among Buddhists in Sri Lanka. It soon seemed appropriate to me to express these inchoate sentiments of human ambiguity as the Rashomon effect. Kurosawa’s vision of multiple possible realities fitted in with the problems faced by anthropologists when they tried to understand the colorful but alien reality of other cultures and interpret them to Western academic audiences. What was their reality we asked? Could a single account, however authoritative, do justice to the richness and immediacy of their own experiences? What kinds of intellectual presuppositions had already colored the spectacles of the observer? As anthropological accounts of other peoples multiplied, these questions became more troubling and more insistent for the development of an intellectual discipline.Publication Metadata only Age, sex and positional variations in the human epidermal ridge breadth by multiple measurements on a cross-sectional sample of school-age children(Moravian Museum, 2022) Kralik, Miroslav; Konikova, Linda; Polcerova, Lenka; Cuta, Martin; Hlozek, Martin; Klima, Ondrej; N/A; Arslan, Aysel; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AA number of studies have used the measurement of density of epidermal ridges on human fingerprints (or average epidermal ridge breadth if the value is expressed in reverse) as a metric to estimate the age of the originator of the imprint at the time of growth and sex at maturity. A methodologically unsolved question is how the number of ridges measured together within one segment (or the length of the line segment across which the ridges are counted) affects the results. In this study, we therefore investigated how the count of ridges measured together within one segment, as well as the count of averaged segments per subject, when averaged, affect the resulting values of mean epidermal ridge breadth. Moreover, we investigated how different regions on the human fingers and palms differ in this respect. Using a cross-sectional sample of 90 school children (45 girls and 45 boys, age range from 6 to 16 years)from South Moravia, we compared the differences in epidermal ridge breadth in 29 different hand regions, particularly in terms of the degree of age differences. The results show that different regions on the hand vary significantly in the effect of age which might have consequences for estimating age and sex based on these epidermal ridge breadth measurements. However,the ability to statistically distinguish age or sex groups is affected by the number of measurement units (ridges, fingerprints)used to calculate mean epidermal ridge breadth (MRB). Therefore, in future research, it would be advisable to introduce computation with interval estimates of MRB or a hierarchical approach directly accounting for individual epidermal ridges.Publication Metadata only Producing journalistic authority in the age of digital mediatemporality, media affordance, and ethical reflexivity in Turkey's media sphere(Wiley, 2021) Department of Media and Visual Arts; Ünal, Nazlı Özkan; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 309365This article examines how journalists in Turkey form their authority and strengthen control over their news craft in the digital age through processing (islemek) the news. Processing combines two crucial components: ethical engagement with news stories and a flexible time frame. Drawing on ethnographic and visual analysis of televisual, newspaper, and internet production at Turkey's socialist Yuzyil newspaper, I argue that journalists invest more heavily in non-digital mediums like television and print because they provide a more flexible temporality to process information through investigation and ethical deliberation.Publication Metadata only Corporatism, heritage, and museums rigmarole in Central America, 1899-1950(Univ Florida Press, 2019) Department of Archeology and History of Art; Roosevelt, Christina Marie Luke; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 235112N/APublication Metadata only Out of range? non-normative funerary practices from the neolithic to the early twentieth century at Catalhoyuk, Turkey(University Press of Florida, 2020) Sadvari, Joshua W.; Knuesel, Christopher J.; Moore, Sophie V.; Nugent, Selin E.; Larsen, Clark Spencer; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Haddow, Scott Donald; Researcher; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Rethinking globalization and health: medical tourism in Turkey(Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), 2014) Terzioğlu, Ayşecan; Faculty Member; School of Nursing; 177870The article explores medical tourism in Turkey, which points out the problems in the globalization in the Turkish health sector. Turkey is becoming one of the most prominent centers for medical tourism with its luxurious private hospitals. However, this development focuses on the economic and technological infrastructure rather than the socio-cultural aspects of medicine. Based on a media survey, observations in the private hospitals, and interviews with doctors, nurses, supervisors and policymakers, the article will focus on the problematic aspects of medical tourism in Turkey.