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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

During a decade of collaboration, this project has accumulated its debts to organizations and persons. For financial support, Rutz is indebted to the Fulbright Foundation for a Senior Lecturer award that allowed him to teach at Boazii University during the academic year 1991–92. Funds from the William R. Kenan Chair at Hamilton College funded aspects of fieldwork from 1990 to 1994, including intensive Turkish language study at Boazii University. Hamilton College Faculty Travel and Support grants funded field research in the summers of 1991, 1993, and 1995. Hamilton College granted sabbaticals during fall 1990 for the purpose of reconnaissance and spring 1997 for final field research. Balkan is indebted to Hamilton College for its support for the survey and interviews conducted in Istanbul during 1993–97 and again in 2006. We acknowledge the generous support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for a senior grant that contributed to the completion in 1993 of the Istanbul Socioeconomic Household Survey. The Cultural Anthropology Program of the National Science Foundation Award No. 9506123 supported interviews of Istanbul families from January to June 1997.

Turkish colleagues, friends, and families provided the social and emotional support that is so necessary to the morale and success of any project involving fieldwork and ethnography. Ahmet Tonak introduced Rutz to Aye nc, the chair of the Sociology Department, who was instrumental in making it possible for Rutz to assume a Fulbright Fellowship at Boazii University. Aye was unstinting in her support of Rutz during his stay and she, along with Nükhet Sirman, Belgin Teke, Fred Shorter, Ferhunde zbay, Leyla Neyzi, and Peter Taylor were generous in their hospitality, their collegial counsel and advice, and their sharing of friends and family. Parts of this book germinated in conversations over dinner or while relaxing in their homes. Fulbright Senior Research Fellow Daniel Bates and his wife Judith, Roger Samuel and Virginia Johnston, Istanbul Director of American Research Institute in Turkey Tony Greenwood and Gülen Aptas, Orhan and Pamela Saroz, and the whole akmak family and kinswoman Nergis akirolu offered their hospitality and friendship. Rutz is especially grateful to his Turkish language teacher Sabahat Sansa, who persevered in the classroom while teaching him much about Turkish culture. Balkan is grateful to Sungur Savran for his support and thoughtful comments. Rutz is grateful to Bonnie Urciuoli for many stimulating conversations that have influenced the argument of the book. Robin Vanderwall formatted this book and stimulated further conversation about its content.

Taped interviews and the Istanbul Socioeconomic Household Survey were a main part of our early research design. We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge a major contribution of the following parents, educators, teachers, tutors, and school owners who submitted to taped interviews: Hrriyet and Lev-ent Konyar; Yasemin and Babr Bayindir; Fgen, Elif, and Tuncay Pulcu; Feray and Zeynep z; Birkan Yetkin; ule Sevin; Sevil Turul; Dicle Öldrlenolu; Lale Ünal; Gler Esmergil; Mehmet Ali Neyzi; Ergder Pasin; Fsun Kuzuolu; Vitale Meulam; Belma Ikiz; Sinan Cadas; kran Bakurt; Temel and Aye Gl-tepe; Ahmet Dura; Abbas Gl; Tomris and Hudai Gasemaz; Nuray and Erol Turan; Serap, Kasim, and zge Taar; Jale and Sedat Evener; Meral Alpay; Nurten Arakon; Dndar Uar; Yeim Inanir; Dilek and Aydin Yardim; and Inci and Deniz Kayabay. The collection of data for the Istanbul Socioeconomic Household Survey was accomplished by using the instrument of a survey questionnaire to interview 550 households. We acknowledge the contribution of the following research assistants who were recruited to locate informants and administer the questionnaire: Hikmet Kuhan, Asli Turul, Hrriyet Konyar, Janet orlu, Gizem Kilisliolu, and Krat Yaar. We also thank another research assistant, Nafiz Akehirliolu, for his diligent search into popular culture and lifestyle materials. Asli Turul, C. Gke Gldal, and Iik kte transcribed and translated the taped interviews. Baran Tekkora and Taylan Baykut helped Balkan format and put into computer form the raw data from the Istanbul Socioeconomic Household Survey.

We are grateful to Doris Rutz and Neecan Balkan for improving the argument of this book by their thoughtful and careful editing of each chapter and also by their careful questioning that led to numerous redactions of the final manuscript. Without their continuous support, this project would not have been possible.