Economy and Identity: Felt Making and Marketing in Kashgar Region and Konya

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1406314" target="_blank" >https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1406314</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46400/uygur.828616" target="_blank" >10.46400/uygur.828616</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Economy and Identity: Felt Making and Marketing in Kashgar Region and Konya

Original language description

Kashgar in China and Konya in Turkey are centers of felt making. The making and marketing of felt in these places, however, developed in two fairly different directions. In Konya felt is a sought-after tourism item while in Kashgar felt is reserved for personal use in a rural context. This paper is analyzing why felt-making in Kashgar barely survived, while the felt industry in Konya flourished. The paper compares the processes of felt-making, as well as the living or working conditions of felt makers in the two regions and argues. That in Kashgar, felt is not only used for domestic purposes, but it is also a marker of Uyghur identity. Moreover, Kashgar is a historical center of Uyghur handicrafts and felt-making that had, due to the severe travel restrictions during the past centuries, little cultural exchange with other regions and, the felt making techniques and production patterns thus barely changed. The limited flow of people, skills, ideas and techniques reflect in a low marketability of felt in Kashgar and - Uyghur felt makers hardly reach their level of subsistence by focusing on felt making. In contrast, Konya is an tourist’s city and contemporary center of felt industry producing for tourists hunting local felt and felt products. As such, the Turkish felt makers incorporated modern patterns, eased and accelerated the production process and in doing so repurposed the use felt, making it attractive for a young clientele. In this way they were able to cure prosperity for their felt industry.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi

ISSN

2458-827X

e-ISSN

2458-827X

Volume of the periodical

2020

Issue of the periodical within the volume

16

Country of publishing house

TR - TURKEY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

224-232

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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