Deception and violence in the ottoman empire: the people's theory of crowd behavior during the hamidian massacres of 1895

Name: Deception and violence in the ottoman empire: the people's theory of crowd behavior during the hamidian massacres of 1895
Author: Sipahi, Ali

İsim	Deception and violence in the ottoman empire: the people's theory of crowd behavior during the hamidian massacres of 1895
Yazar	Sipahi, Ali
Basım Tarihi:	2020-10
Basım Yeri	- Cambridge University Press
Konu	Harput, Armenian Massacres, Deception, Collective violence, Crowd behavior, Historical ethnography, Anthropology of fakes, Imposters, Gustave Le Bon
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	0010-4175
Kayıt Numarası	a9e7f0de-8792-4ca8-a087-620f3793d8fe
Lokasyon	Humanities and Social Sciences
Tarih	2020-10
Notlar	Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship from the University of Michigan ; Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations at Koc University ; American Research Institute in Turkey
Örnek Metin	This article is an historical ethnography of the popular conceptualizations of crowd behavior during the pogroms against the Armenians in the Ottoman East in 1895-1896. It draws on contemporary sources like official telegrams, governmental reports, letters of American missionaries, and Armenian periodicals to show that observers with otherwise highly conflicting views described the structure of the event in the exact same way: as an outcome of sinister deception. Without exception, all parties told some story of deception to explain the violent attacks of the Kurdish semi-nomadic crowds on the Armenian neighborhoods of the city of Harput. The article analyzes these cases of disguise, deluding, and inculcation to reveal how contemporary observers theorized crowd behavior in general and the atrocities they witnessed in particular. They did not perceive violence as an index of social distance or deep societal divisions. On the contrary, they described a world in which Armenians and Muslims lived a shared life, and where one attacked the other only when deceived. Methodologically, the article lifts barriers between intellectual history and social history on behalf of an historical ethnography of people's theories about their own society.
DOI	10.1017/S0010417520000298
Cilt	62

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Deception and violence in the ottoman empire: the people's theory of crowd behavior during the hamidian massacres of 1895

Yazar Sipahi, Ali

Basım Tarihi 2020-10

Basım Yeri - Cambridge University Press

Konu Harput, Armenian Massacres, Deception, Collective violence, Crowd behavior, Historical ethnography, Anthropology of fakes, Imposters, Gustave Le Bon

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 0010-4175

Kayıt Numarası a9e7f0de-8792-4ca8-a087-620f3793d8fe

Lokasyon Humanities and Social Sciences

Tarih 2020-10

Notlar Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship from the University of Michigan ; Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations at Koc University ; American Research Institute in Turkey

Örnek Metin This article is an historical ethnography of the popular conceptualizations of crowd behavior during the pogroms against the Armenians in the Ottoman East in 1895-1896. It draws on contemporary sources like official telegrams, governmental reports, letters of American missionaries, and Armenian periodicals to show that observers with otherwise highly conflicting views described the structure of the event in the exact same way: as an outcome of sinister deception. Without exception, all parties told some story of deception to explain the violent attacks of the Kurdish semi-nomadic crowds on the Armenian neighborhoods of the city of Harput. The article analyzes these cases of disguise, deluding, and inculcation to reveal how contemporary observers theorized crowd behavior in general and the atrocities they witnessed in particular. They did not perceive violence as an index of social distance or deep societal divisions. On the contrary, they described a world in which Armenians and Muslims lived a shared life, and where one attacked the other only when deceived. Methodologically, the article lifts barriers between intellectual history and social history on behalf of an historical ethnography of people's theories about their own society.

DOI 10.1017/S0010417520000298

Cilt 62