Sandık ve Çeyiz Kültürüne Müzeografik (Müze İşlemleri) Açıdan Yaklaşmak
Approaching The Dowry Culture in Terms of Museograhy

Summary/Abstract: This paper dwells upon the roots of museology and museography in the world and especially the roots of Turkish museology.The examples given within this context are from the Far East as well as Europe along with examples from Turkish culture. The examples are mentioned with the aim of indicating the similarities between museography and cultures of dowry and dowry chest around the world especially in Turkey. In as much as museums have been called as institutions of rootless or discontinious by Anthony Giddens but it will be emphisized that both museum and dowry custom satisfiedsa me requirements and they have related similar traditions. At the core of the paper is the relation between museography and the hope chest and dowry culture which hasbeen adopted into the Turkish culture from a wide geographic area spanning Central Asia, Balkans and Europe. In this regard firstly the concept of museography is clarified and then critiqued using museology. After expression of dowry, some examples related dowry practices from different culture all around the World have been included. Thent he paper demonstrates similarities between museographic practices and practices formed around the dowry culture using examples from Turkish culture. As a conclusion, it is observed that the dowry culture all around the World has not been evaluated as a part of studies of premuseography and museology.

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