1995. Hamilton College granted sabbaticals during fall 1990 for the purpose of reconnaissance and spring 1997 for final field research. Balkan is indebted to Hamilton College for its support for the survey and interviews conducted in Istanbul during 1993–97 and again in 2006. We acknowledge the generous support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for a senior grant that contributed to the completion in 1993 of the Istanbul Socioeconomic Household Survey. The Cultural Anthropology Program of the National Science Foundation Award No. 9506123 supported interviews of Istanbul families from January to June 1997.
Turkish colleagues, friends, and families provided the social and emotional support that is so necessary to the morale and success of any project involving fieldwork and ethnography. Ahmet Tonak introduced Rutz to Ay
e
e was unstinting in her support of Rutz during his stay and she, along with Nükhet Sirman, Belgin Tek
zbay, Leyla Neyzi, and Peter Taylor were generous in their hospitality, their collegial counsel and advice, and their sharing of friends and family. Parts of this book germinated in conversations over dinner or while relaxing in their homes. Fulbright Senior Research Fellow Daniel Bates and his wife Judith, Roger Samuel and Virginia Johnston, Istanbul Director of American Research Institute in Turkey Tony Greenwood and Gülen Aptas, Orhan and Pamela Saroz, and the whole
lu offered their hospitality and friendship. Rutz is especially grateful to his Turkish language teacher Sabahat Sansa, who persevered in the classroom while teaching him much about Turkish culture. Balkan is grateful to Sungur Savran for his support and thoughtful comments. Rutz is grateful to Bonnie Urciuoli for many stimulating conversations that have influenced the argument of the book. Robin Vanderwall formatted this book and stimulated further conversation about its content.
Taped interviews and the Istanbul Socioeconomic Household Survey were a main part of our early research design. We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge a major contribution of the following parents, educators, teachers, tutors, and school owners who submitted to taped interviews: H
ulam; Belma Ikiz; Sinan Ca
kurt; Temel and Ay
e G
ar; Jale and Sedat Evener; Meral Alpay; Nurten Arakon; D
im Inanir; Dilek and Aydin Yardim; and Inci and Deniz Kayabay. The collection of data for the Istanbul Socioeconomic Household Survey was accomplished by using the instrument of a survey questionnaire to interview 550 households. We acknowledge the contribution of the following research assistants who were recruited to locate informants and administer the questionnaire: Hikmet Ku
han, Asli Tu
at Ya
ar. We also thank another research assistant, Nafiz Ak
ehirlio
ik
kte transcribed and translated the taped interviews. Baran Tekkora and Taylan Baykut helped Balkan format and put into computer form the raw data from the Istanbul Socioeconomic
1995. Hamilton College granted sabbaticals during fall 1990 for the purpose of reconnaissance and spring 1997 for final field research. Balkan is indebted to Hamilton College for its support for the survey and interviews conducted in Istanbul during 1993–97 and again in 2006. We acknowledge the generous support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for a senior grant that contributed to the completion in 1993 of the Istanbul Socioeconomic Household Survey. The Cultural Anthropology Program of the National Science Foundation Award No. 9506123 supported interviews of Istanbul families from January to June 1997.
