An anthropological account of how Turkey, a predominantly Muslim state, has come to embrace republicanism in a way that, as in the United States, it has suffused private domestic life.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Elderly Children of the Republic: The Public History in the Private Story 29
2. Wedded to the Republic: Displaying Transformations in Private Lives 65
3. Miniaturizing Ataturk: The Commodification of State Iconography 93
4. Hand in Hand with the Republic: Civilian Celebration of the Turkish State 125
5. Public Memory as Political Battleground: Kemalist and Islamist Versions of the Early Republic 151
Conclusion 178
Notes 183
References 199
Index 217