Following the dead beyond the 'nation': A map for transnational Alevi funerary routes from Europe to Turkey

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1758-1774

  Zirh, Besim Can ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alevis; funeral; methodological nationalism; migration; mortuary focus; multi sited ethnography; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; IMMIGRANT; MIGRATION; NATIONAL IDENTITY; NATIONALISM; VILLAGE;

EUROPE; TURKEY;

EID: 84866285258     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.659274     Document Type: Article

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