Faculty Member
Associate Professor of Anthropology
jbwhite@bu.edu
232 Bay State Rd.
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-7709
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Interests:
Political and Economic AnthropologyIslam and Islamic PoliticsMuslim Minorities in EuropeGender, Women, and Civil Society
Turkey
Courses:
AN 307: Turkey in Middle East Perspective
AN 317: Power and Society in the Middle East
AN 547: Topics: Muslim Societies and Islamic Civilizations: Media, Market and Material Culture in Muslim Societies
Publications:
Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics. University of Washington Press, 2002. Winner of 2003 Douglass Prize for best book in Europeanist anthropology. Awarded by American Anthropological Association Society for the Anthropology of Europe. In Turkish translation, forthcoming, Istanbul: Oglak Press.
Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor in Urban Turkey. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. Second Edition, London: Routledge, 2004. In Turkish translation: Para Ile Akraba Olduk: Türkiye’de Kadin Emegi. Istanbul: Iletisim Press, 1999.
“Islam and Politics in Contemporary Turkey”, Cambridge History of Modern Turkey, volume IV, Resat Kasaba, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
“The End of Islamism? Turkey’s Muslimhood Model”, Modern Muslim Politics, Robert Hefner, ed., Princeton University Press, 2005.
“State Feminism and the Turkish Republican Woman”, National Women’s Studies Association Journal Vol. 15, No. 3 (Fall) 2003, pp. 145-159.
“The Anthropology of Turkey: A Retrospective”, in Turkish Studies in the United States, Donald Quataert and Sabri Sayari, eds., Bloomington: Indiana University Ottoman and Turkish Studies Publications, 2003, pp. 75-98.
“The Islamist Paradox,” in Fragments of Culture: The Everyday of Modern Turkey, Deniz Kandiyoti, ed., London: I.B. Tauris, 2002, pp. 191-217.
“The Islamist Movement in Turkey and Human Rights”, Human Rights Review October-December 2001, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.17-26.
“Amplifying Trust: Community and Communication in Turkey,” in New Media and the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, Dale Eickelman and Jon Anderson, eds., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, 162-179.
“Islamic Chic,” in Istanbul Between the Global and the Local, Çarrlar Keyder, ed., Boulder, Co.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
“Turks in the New Germany,” American Anthropologist 99(4) December 1997, pp. 754-769.
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