Nomadic Women in the Late Ottoman Anatolia According to British Travelogues and Otto-man Archival Sources
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https://doi.org/10.33831/jws.v24i2.439Keywords:
tribe, women, nomad, Ottoman, traveloguesAbstract
It is a fact that representation of no-madic women in the Ottoman historiog-raphy is quite insufficient and left un-touched. Although there are anthropolog-ical and sociological studies on nomadic women, Ottoman historiography’s defi-ciency on this topic is due to many multi-faceted reasons. In this study, a signifi-cant and modest contribution will be made to the literature within the frame-work of some rarely found information regarding the nomadic women’s repre-sentation. Although Ottoman archival sources can provide limited data, some archival documents show important insights on the issue. Also, some data on the versality of nomadic women’s repre-sentation will be shared in the light of the writings of British male travelers’ direct observations despite their orientalist and modernist prejudices on the social life in late Ottoman Anatolia. Based on these accounts and some Ottoman archival records in the last period of the empire, the diversity and versatility of the politi-cal and social status of nomadic women in their own public sphere will be dis-cussed. Within the framework of the cri-tique and analysis of these data, this study, away from over-generalizations, aims to contribute to the other studies on the role of the nomadic women.
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