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Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Atatürk: The Construction and Maintenance of National Memory
Contributor(s): Wilson, Christopher S. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1138274879     ISBN-13: 9781138274877
Publisher: Routledge
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Adaptive Reuse & Renovation
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
Dewey: 720.956
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (0.70 lbs) 162 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
 
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There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal Atat 1/4rk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of these different architectural constructions - the bedroom in Dolmabah e Palace, Istanbul, where he died; a temporary catafalque in this same palace; his funeral stage in Turkey's new capital Ankara; a temporary tomb in the Ankara Ethnographic Museum; and his permanent and monumental mausoleum in Ankara, known in Turkish as 'Anitkabir' (Memorial Tomb) - this book also describes and interprets the movement of Atat 1/4rk's body through the cities of Istanbul and Ankara and also the nation of Turkey to reach these destinations. It examines how each one of these locations - accidental, designed, temporary, permanent - has contributed in its own way to the construction of a Turkish national memory about Atat 1/4rk. Lastly, the two permanent constructions - the Dolmabah e Palace bedroom and Anitkabir - have changed in many ways since their first appearance in order to maintain this national memory. These changes are exposed to reveal a dynamic, rather than dull, impression of funerary architecture.
 
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