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Publications

2024 ‘Tension and Resolution in Archaeology in Turkey’ in The Long March of Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean. Political and Cultural Entanglements, edited by Björn Forsén, Giovanni Salmeri, and David Shankland. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, pages 67-86.

2023a ‘Back to Anatolia: Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Alevi Research’ in The Alevis in Modern Turkey and the Diaspora: Recognition, Mobilisation and Transformation, edited by Derya Ozkul, Hege Markussen, Edinburgh: EUP, pages 293-311.

 

2023b ‘Forty-five years of modernisation in Turkish Villages: What Stirling might have written’ in Commemorating Paul Stirling 25 Years After He Passed Away in ASSA Sondernummer 1/2023, edited by Emine Onaran İncirlioğlu & Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek, pages 53-71.

2023c ‘Evans-Pritchard and Marett: or how E-P found a job’ in A Touch of Genius: The Life, Work and Influence of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard, edited by Andre Singer: RAI Book Series Volume 4. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, pages 115-129.

2023d 'Segmentary lineage systems re(re)considered: The example of the Alevis of Anatolia', in A Touch of Genius: The Life, Work and Influence of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard, edited by Andre Singer: RAI Book Series Volume 4. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, pages 281-288.

2023e ‘Gellner: Right and Wrong’ in Ernest Gellner’s Legacy and Social Theory Today, edited by Petr Skalnik, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pages 365-400.

 

2022a Westermarck and Social Anthropology, in Before and After Malinowski: Alternative Views on the History of Anthropology, edited by Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa, Article BEROSE, 17-21

 

2022b ‘Edward Westermarck, a Master Ethnographer, and His Monograph Ritual and Belief in Morocco (1926)’, Chapter Three in Ethnographers before Malinowski, edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 117-152.

 

2022c  ‘Afterword’ in The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate: Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate, edited by Paul Sillitoe, Oxford: Berghahn.

 

2020 ‘Fire, the hearth (ocak) and social life: examples from an Alevi community in Anatolia’, in Landscapes of Human Evolution, edited by J. Cole, Oxford: Archaeopress, 169-175.

 

2019a (ed) Dunbar’s Number, RAI Occasional Paper 45, Sean Kingston Books.

 

2019b ‘Anthropology and its History’, in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. Vol. 144 Issue 1; 51-76.

 

2019c ‘The Role of History in the Teaching of Anthropology’, in Teaching Anthropology, Vol. 9 No. 1; 1-9.

 

2018a ‘Westermarck, Moral Relativity, and Ethical Behaviour’, in An Anthropology of the Enlightenment: moral social relations then and today, edited by Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle. ASA Monograph. London; Bloomsbury.

 

2018b ‘Culture, Text and Identity amongst the Alevis’ in Alevism Between Standardisation and Plurality: Negotiating Texts, Sources and Cultural Heritage, edited by Benjamin Weineck and Johannes Zimmermann, Lausanne; Peter Lang GmbH.

 

2018c Nine entries in 30 Second Anthropology, edited by Simon Underdown, Ivy Press.

 

2018d ‘The Royal Anthropological Institute’ in the Wiley International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology.

 

2016a Review of Kuper, A. Anthropology and Anthropologists, fourth edition, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 22, Issue 3, 739-740.

 

2014a (editor) Westermarck, RAI Occasional Paper 44, Sean Kingston Books. Short-listed for the 2014 Katharine Briggs Prize of the Folklore Society. Includes my chapters;  ‘Westermarck: a missing link’, and ‘Westermarck, anthropology and the Royal Anthropological Institute’; 1-18, and 19-27.

 

2014b Westermarck, Moral Behaviour and Ethical Relativity; Plenary Address ASA Conference ‘Anthropology and the Enlightenment’, Edinburgh, June 2014. University of St Andrews, Yearbook of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, Vol 1: 1-12.

 

2014c ‘The roots of international co-operation in anthropology and the founding of the IUAES’, in Colloquia Anthropologica, edited by Michal Buchowski and Arkadiusz Bentowski, Poznan: Polski Instytut Antropologii, pages 347-370.

 

2014d Invited ‘comment’ on ‘The Ties That Bind Us: Ritual, Fusion, and Identification’, by Harvey Whitehouse and Jonathan A. Lanman, in Current Anthropology, Volume 55, Number 6, December 2014.

 

2013a (editor) Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia: the life and works of F.W. Hasluck, 1878-1920, Istanbul: Isis Press. Includes my chapter: ‘Hasluck revisited’, pages 15-26.

 

2013b ‘The Alevis in Europe: Changing Dede/Talip Relations’ in Langer, R et al, Ocak und Dedelik Institutionen religiösen Spezialistentums bei den Aleviten, Heidelberger Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des modernen Vorderen Orients, Volume 36 (with Atila Çetin).

 

2013c ‘Royal Anthropological Institute’ in Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia, edited by: R. Jon McGee & Richard L. Warms, London: Sage Reference.

 

2012a (ed) Archaeology and Anthropology past, present and future, ASA Monograph. Oxford: Berg. Includes my chapter: ‘Archaeology and Anthropology: Divorce and Partial Reconciliation’; 1-18.

 

2012b (with Atila Çetin) ‘Haritalar ve Aleviler’ (Maps and the Alevis) pages 12-15 in Special Issue of the journal Alevilerin Sesi (The Voice of the Alevis), May 2012, devoted to my ESRC research project, with an appreciation by Dr Besim Can Zihr (Middle East Technical University), pages 16-23, my explanation, and an article by Caroline Tee (researcher on the project), pages 24-25.

 

2012c ‘Are the Alevis Shi’ite’? In Shi’ite Identities, edited by Lloyd Ridgeon, London: RoutledgeTauris.

2011 ‘Comment’ on ‘The Liberal Treatment of Difference’ by Nigel Rapport, in Current Anthropology, Volume 52, number 5, October 2011, pages 704-5.

 

2010a (ed) “Heterodox Movements in the Contemporary Islamic World: Alevis, Yezidis, and Ahmadis”, Special Issue of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 37; 3, 227-448.

 

2010b ‘Maps and the Alevis; on the ethnography of heterodox Islamic groups’ in Special Issue of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies as above. 227 – 239.

 

2009a (editor: with Soraya Tremaine) “Religion, Identity and Minorities in the Middle East - Strategies and Developments”, Special Issue of Anthropology of the Middle East, 4; 2, pp 112.

 

2009b ‘Scenes pleasant and unpleasant: FW Hasluck and the British School at Athens’, in Llewellyn Smith, M., Kitromilides, P. and Calligas, E. Scholars, Travels, Archives: Greek history and culture through the British School at Athens, British School at Athens studies; 17. London: BSA.

 

2008 (with Atila Çetin) ‘Aleviten in Deutschland’ in Aleviten in Deutschland Identitätsprozesse einer Religionsgemeinschaft in der Diaspora, ed. Martin Sökefeld, Bielefed; Transcript, 219-244.

 

2007 ‘Islam and Society in Turkey: the 2007 Presidential Elections and beyond’, International Affairs, Vol 15: 357-371

 

2006a Structure and Function in Turkish Society, Istanbul: Isis Press. (essays: 100,000 words).

 

2006b ‘Turkey’ in the Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices, Ed. Thomas Riggs. Vol. 3: Countries: M-Z. Detroit: Gale, 474-480 (Second, revised edition 2014).

 

2005a ‘The Open Society and Anthropology: An ethnographic example from Turkey’, Anthropological Journal on European Cultures Vol 13: 33-49.

 

2005b “The Socio-Ecology of Çatalhöyük” in Çatalhöyük Perspectives: Themes from the 1995-99 Seasons, edited by Ian Hodder, Çatalhöyük Research Project 6, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research/ British Institute at Ankara Monograph, pages 15-24.

 

2005c (with Atila Çetin) ‘Ritual transfer and the reformulation of belief amongst the Turkish Alevi community in Europe’, in Migration und Ritualtransfer, Heidelberger Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Modernen Vorderen Orients, No 33, ed. by R. Langer, et al; 51-72.

 

2005d ‘Culturalism and Social Mobility: an Alevi village in Germany’, in Alevis and Alevism: Transformed Identities, edited H. Markussen, Istanbul: Isis Press, pages 11-30.

 

2005e ‘Islam, Politics and Democracy in Turkey’, in The EU and Turkey: a glittering prize or a millstone?, ed. Michael Lake, London: Federal Trust for Education & Research; 49-60.

 

2005f. ‘Forward’ to Arabic translation of Ernest Gellner’s Muslim Society.

2004a (ed.) Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia: the life and works of F.W. Hasluck, 1878-1920, two volumes, Istanbul: Isis Press. Includes my Introduction’ and Chapter 39: ‘The Local and the Universal at Çatalhöyük, Turkey’.

2004b ‘Modes of Religiosity and the Legacy of Ernest Gellner’, in Ritual and Memory, edited by H. Whitehouse and J. Laidlaw, Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.

2004c ‘Gellner’: Biographical Dictionary of Social Anthropologists, London: Routledge.

2004d ‘F.W. Hasluck’, ‘M M Hardie (Mrs Hasluck)’, British Dictionary of Classicists.

 

2003a ‘Gellner and Islam’ in Social Evolution and History, Volume 2, No. 2 (September 2003), Special Memorial Issue: the Intellectual Legacy of Ernest Gellner, pages 118-142.

 

2003b The Alevis in modern Turkey: the emergence of a secular Muslim tradition, London: RoutledgeCurzon.

 

2003c Reprint of 1994b below (with slight up-dating) in White, P. and Jongerden, J. (eds.) Turkey’s Alevi Enigma, Leiden: Brill, pages 33-50.

 

2002a ‘Religion’ in Turkish Transformation, ed. B. Beeley, Huntington: Eothen Press; 79-98.

 

2002b Reprint of 1988 below in Andrews, P. (ed.) Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey, 2nd, enlarged edition, Wiesbaden, Vol. 2.

 

2001a. ‘Villagers and the Distant Past’ in I. Hodder (ed) Towards Reflexive Method in Archaeology: the Example at Çatalhöyük, Cambridge: MacDonald Institute, and London: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, pages 167-176, first printed as 1999f below.

 

2001b Putting the Science Back In’, Editorial, Anthropology Today, Vol. 17.

 

2001c ‘Response’ to 2001b above, and my ‘reply’ in Anthropology Today, Volume 17, No. 4, August 2001, page 23.

 

2001d ‘Anthropology and the BAAS: An interview with David Shankland by Hilary Callan’, Anthropology Today, Volume 17, No 3, June 2001, page 22.

 

2000a 'Knowledge and Universals: a note prompted by the ASA conference on Indigenous Knowledge and Development', Anthropology Today, June issue, ‘Response’, August Issue.

 

2000b 'Studying Secularism: thoughts on modern Turkey and the Alevis', in ISIM Newsletter 5, July 2000.

 

1999a Islam and Society in Turkey, Huntington: Eothen.

 

1999b. (Editor) The Turkish Republic at Seventy-Five Years: Progress - Development - Change, Huntingdon: Eothen Press.

 

1999c. 'Integrating the rural: Gellner and the study of Anatolia' in Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 35, No 2, pages 132-149.

 

1999d 'Gününümüz Türkiye'si Alevilerinde 'dede' ve 'talip' arasındaki değişen bağ' [The changing link between 'dede' and 'talip' in Turkey today] in Türkiye'de Aleviler Bektaşiler Nusayriler [Alevis, Bektashis, and Nusayris in Turkey], Istanbul: Islami Ilimler Araştırma Vakfı [Islamic Sciences Research Foundation], pages 319-327.

 

1999e ‘An interview with Professor Paul Stirling’, Turkish Studies Association Bulletin: Vol. 23, No. 1, pages 1-23.

 

1999f 'Ethno-Archaeology at Küçükköy' in Anatolian Archaeology, Volume 5, pages 23-24.

 

1999g 'Integrating the past: folklore, mounds and people at Çatalhöyük' in Gazin-Schwartz, A. and Holtorf, C. (eds.) Archaeology and Folklore, London: Routledge, 1999, 139-157.

 

1999h 'Antropoloji ve Etnisite: Yeni Alevi Haraketinde Etnoğrafyanın Yeri' in Alevi Kimliği Turkish translation of 1998 below, Türkiye Tarih Vakfı: Istanbul, pages 20-31.

 

1999i Entry 'Religion' in Turkey: World Bibliographical Series Volume 37, London: ABC, ed. Çiğdem Balim-Harding.

 

1998 'Anthropology and Ethnicity: the place of Ethnography in the new Alevi Movement', in Olsson, T. et al (eds), Alevi Identity, Istanbul; Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul: 15-23.

 

1997a 'The Anthropology of an Archaeological Presence' in Hodder I. (ed.) On the Surface: the re-opening of Catalhoyuk, Cambridge: MacDonald Institute, and London: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Çatalhöyük Project reports, Volume Two, pages 218-226.

 

1997b 'Nationality, Ethnicity and Religion in the Republic of Turkey' in The Transition to Modernity, ed. Tsibiridou, F., Komotini: Universite Democrite de Thrace, pp 91-104

 

1997c 'Old Ideas in New Forms: The Mehti in Modern Turkey' in Bowie F. (ed.) The Coming Deliverer, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pages 224-237.

 

1996a 'Changing gender Relations among Alevi and Sunni in Turkey' in Turkish Families in Transition, ed. Rasuly-Paleczek, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pages 83-97.

 

1996b. 'The Demise of Republican Turkey's Social Contract?' in Government and Opposition, Vol. 31 Number 3, pages 304-321.

 

1996c. ''Islam, Secularists and the Alevi' in Islamic World Report, Volume 1 No. 3, pp 102-114.

 

1995a 'Six Propositions concerning the Turkish Alevi', in The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, 18: 1, pages 104-106.

 

1995b 'An Anthropology of Archaeology' in Anatolian Archaeology, Volume 1, page 20.

 

1994a 'Informant's view of the researcher as an epistemological issue: among the Turkish Alevi', in The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, 17, 1: 119-22.

 

1994b Reprint of 1993b below in International Folklore Review, Volume 9, pages 62-64.

 

1994c 'Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernisation in an Alevi Village in Anatolia' in Hann, C. ed. When History Accelerates, London: Athlone Press, pages 238-254.

 

1993a 'Diverse paths of change: Alevi and Sunni in rural Turkey' in Culture and Society: Changes in Turkish Villages ed. Stirling, P. Huntingdon: Eothen Press. pages 46-64.

 

1993b 'The Living Yunus Emre' (Opening Address to the Fourth International Folklore Conference, Antalya, 1991) Department of Folklore Studies: Ministry of Culture: Turkey.

 

1993c Simple Etiquette in Turkey, Kent: Paul Norbury publications, 48pp. (Three editions).

1986 'Men, Women and Youths among the High Atlas Mountains' in Edinburgh Anthropology, Vol 2, pages 80-104.

 

As founding series editor

 

2021 Anthropology in Motion: Encounters with Current Trajectories of Scholarship from Austria, (edited by Andre Gingrich) RAI Country Series, volume 4.

 

2021 Social Anthropologies of the Welsh: Past and Present, (edited by W. John Morgan and Fiona Bowie) RAI Country Series, volume 5.

 

2021 Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations, (edited by Synnøve K.N. Bendixsen and Edvard Hviding), RAI Country Series, volume 3.

 

2019 Twilight Zone Anthropology: Voices from Poland, (edited by Michael Buchowski) RAI Country Series, volume 2.

 

2015 Anthropology at the Crossroads The View from France, (edited by Sophie Chevalier) RAI: Country Series, volume 1.

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