The West never looked at the East from the East itself. Ingres never went to a bathhouse, Gérôme never entered a harem, but both depicted those places in their paintings as if they were real for centuries. As is clearly seen in these two articles by Uzunoğlu and Kaya, Orientalism was not a matter of geography, but the imposition of a perspective.
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Koçak\'ın makalesi, hamam kültürünü somut kültür mirası üzerinden, yani hamamlarda kullanılan tekstil ürünleri (havlu, peştamal, bohça, tülbent, kese) üzerinden inceler.
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The most important contribution of this article is that it treats the Turkish bath not merely as an architectural structure or a place of hygiene, but as a carrier of social communication and cultural memory.
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