Etiket: material culture

Behold, here comes the bride: textiles, women, and marriage in the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture – Author: Roxana Coman

Tem 21, 2023

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Behold, here comes the bride: textiles, women, and marriage in the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture Author: Roxana Coman 21 July 2023 Supported by a Short-Term Scientific Mission Grant in the COST Action Europe Through Textiles: Network for an Integrated Research, and the Orient-Institut Istanbul, the two months spent in the Benaki Museum of Greek…

Threads of Tradition: Textile practices and material culture of Sufism in Istanbul. Some field notes – Author: Esther Voswinckel Filiz

Haz 7, 2021

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in Araştırma Projesi

Threads of Tradition: Textile practices and material culture of Sufism in Istanbul. Some field notes Author: Esther Voswinckel Filiz 4 June 2021 Perhaps this yarn is the only thing that holds this man together/ some say he was never here at all… (Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombone) The above quoted lines of a song lingered in my…

A crackling sound and the smell of burnt wood: Ottoman braziers and the Romanian countries – Author: Roxana Coman

May 1, 2021

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in Araştırma Projesi

A crackling sound and the smell of burnt wood: Ottoman braziers and the Romanian countries Author: Roxana Coman 30 April 2021 Ottoman material culture in Romania underwent significant paradigm changes with many symbolical implications during the 18th and 19th centuries, most notably if we take into consideration the westernization and nation building processes. Insofar, the…