The aesthetics of public visibility: Alevi semah and the paradoxes of pluralism in Turkey

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 652-679

  Tambar, Kabir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTHETICS; IDEOLOGY; ISLAMISM; MODERNIZATION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

TURKEY;

EID: 77956112520     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417510000344     Document Type: Article

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