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Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 256 p. Acknowledgements Sources 1. Structure and function in Turkish society 2. Islam, politics and democracy in Turkey 3. The demise of Republican Turkey?s social contract? 4. ntegrating the rural: Gellner and the study of Anatolia 5. Social change and culture: responses to modernization in an Alevi village in Anatolia 6. Anthropology and ethnicity: the place of ethnography in the new Alevi movement 7. Changing gender relations among Alevis and Sunnis in Turkey 8. Studying secularism: modern Turkey and the Alevis 9. The Open Society and Anthropology: an ethnographic example from Turkey 10. Gellner and Islam 11. Culturalism and social mobility: an Alevi village in Germany (with Atila Çetin) 12. Ritual transfer and the reformulation of belief amongst the Turkish Alevi community in Europe (with Atila Çetin) 13. Uneasy capitalism 14. Inspired restraint: Development and the rural community 15. An interview with Professor Paul Stirling.