Officialdom and the Woman Who was "Meant to be Dead". The ethnography of an Exfoliation

Benoît Fliche (1)

1 IDEMEC - Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative

This paradox often strikes users in their dealings with the Turkish administra­tion. It is excessively cautious—where what matters is the written word—yet at the same time exerts only weak control over the real, thereby renouncing its authority and thus necessarily being open to discussion. And so let us put forward our hypothesis. The link between the real and the symbolic is a weak one, meaning that deception is possible. It is possible to play on the written word, and to create fictions.

Mots clés: administration; Turkey; fake; authentification; identification

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Benoît Fliche. Officialdom and the Woman Who was "Meant to be Dead". The ethnography of an Exfoliation. Marc Aymes; Benjamin Gourisse; Élise Massicard. Order and Compromise: Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century, Brill, pp.362-375, 2015, 9789004289796. ⟨halshs-01144731⟩