Bodily Responses to Everyday Life in Tirebolu: A Historical Ethnography of Women’s Ways of Moving

Year 2021, Volume: 4 - Ethnomusicology journal Special Issue / Women Play Sing the Earth-Music and Women, 21 - 33, 30.12.2021

Arzu Öztürkmen

Abstract

This research explores how women remember their bodily ways of knowing and their sense of movement in Tirebolu, a town in the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey.

Keywords

women, body movement, dance, tirebolu, bodily memory

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