Bordered Places, Bounded Times

Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Turkey

• Author(s): Emma L. Baysal, Leonidas Karakatsanis,
• Publisher: British Institute at Ankara
• Pages: 205
• ISBN_10: 1898249385
  ISBN_13: 9781898249382
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / General , History / Ancient / General , History / Middle East / General , History / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula , History / Europe / Medieval , History / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire , Political Science / General , Political Science / International Relations / General , Religion / Islam / General , Social Science / Archaeology , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Social Science / Islamic Studies ,

Description:... Building on similarities and exploring differences in the way scholars undertake their research, this volume presents crossdisciplinary communication on the study of borders, frontiers and boundaries through time, with a focus on Turkey. Standing at the dividing/connecting line between Europe and Asia, Turkey emerges as a place carrying a rich history of multiple layers of borders that have been drawn, shifted or unmade from the remote past until today: from Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers to the period of early states in the Bronze Age, from the poleis of classical antiquity to the period of the empires defined by the Roman expansion and Byzantine rule, from the imprints of the Ottoman state's expanded frontiers to contemporary Turkey's national borders. Amidst proliferating interdisciplinary collaborations for the study of borders between social anthropology, geography, political science and history, this book aims to contribute to a nascent but growing direction in border studies by including archaeology as a collocutor and using Turkey as a case study.