Browsing by Author "Adanir, Elvan Ozkavruk"

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Non-Verbal Language of Peshkir Motifs in Turkish Culture: a Case Study of Peshkir Collection in A.r. İzzet Koyunoğlu Museum
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2025) Gumuser, T.; Ozkavruk Adanir, E.; Adanir, Elvan Ozkavruk
Traditional textiles have been essential items of daily life for centuries, reflecting the feelings and thoughts, tastes, and cultural identities of societies. Among the traditional textiles, a peshkir is a type of napkin or towel used to wipe the mouth during meals and for drying hands. It also has an important place among the traditional textiles in many parts of Anatolia, where young girls and women embroider their feelings, longings, and love through motifs and colors. With the structural change in society, peshkirs have been replaced by industrial productions and surviving examples are being donated to ethnographic museums or purchased for private collections. In Konya, a city in Turkey, the A. R. İzzet Koyunoğlu Museum is one of the museums seeking to keep the tradition alive. In this article, it is intended to underline the importance of peshkirs in Turkish culture from a design perspective considering their decorative features. This case study focuses on eight peshkirs from the A. R. İzzet Koyunoğlu Museum, which were selected from a broader collection of 30 peshkirs. While the sample size is modest compared to the hundreds found in other collections, these particular pieces represent an unpublished segment of the museum’s holdings. © 2025 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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Orientalism Revisited: Orientalism as Fashion
(IGI Global, 2021) Özkavruk Adanır, Elvan; Ileri B.; Ileri, Berna; Adanir, Elvan Ozkavruk
Orientalism is a Western and Western-centric broad field of research that studies the social structures, cultures, languages, histories, religions, and geographies of countries to the east of Europe. The term took on a secondary, detrimental association in the 20th century which looks down on the East. However, this chapter will not dwell on the definition of Orientalism that is debated the most; instead, it will discuss the positive contribution of Orientalism to Western culture. Even though the West otherizes the East in daily life, when it comes to desire, vanity, luxury, and flamboyance without hesitating a moment it adopts these very elements from the Eastern culture. It could be said that this adaptation brings these societies closer in one way or another. The highly admired fashion of Orientalism in the West starting from the 17th century until the 21st century will be the focus of this study. © 2021, IGI Global.