The View from Below: The Contemporaneous View and Role of the Rural, Marginal Areas of Anatolia during the Ottoman Period

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Ottoman archaeology remains in its fledgling stage, struggling against modern research and political biases. This greatly effects the understanding of the rural and highland areas of Anatolia, where excavations or surveys are already less commonly conducted. Historical research has done a great deal to illuminate these places and people, and through art, literature, and government documents, some ideas about the contemporaneous view of rural, highland areas have begun to emerge. Developing archaeological studies add information about tangible interactions and contributions made by rural populations to the Empire at large as well. When viewed together, these sources indicate that ideas about the rural areas changed over the course of the period, but the land itself was seen as valuable, and the people who lived there remained involved in the economy and politics of the Empire at large for the entirety of Ottoman rule.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 33230