Otoetnografik Bir İç Mekan Anlatısı: Nesnelerle Çocukluk Evini Yeniden İnşa Etmek

Abstract

This thesis is based on a narrative that reexamines the concepts of dwelling, interior space, home, room, and object through the childhood house in which I lived, a house that no longer exists. The house comprised two dwellings occupied by my family and relatives, a shared courtyard, and structures added over time on the same plot. This spatial layering represents a cultural legacy transmitted across generations. The people who lived in the house and witnessed its everyday life, including myself as both resident and researcher, form its collective memory. The study argues that a home is not defined solely by its physical structure or ownership. Rather, objects constitute its essential elements and produce meanings that exceed architectural form. Accumulating over time, these objects organize domestic life, generate narratives, and eventually embody the meaning of home. The relationship between home and objects is therefore examined from an ethnographic perspective, and autobiographical experience is transformed into a research tool through autoethnography. Primary data include memories of the home environment, official documents, photographs, interviews with family members and relatives, and relevant literature. Three spaces forming the mental image of the house, selected locations within them, and inventories of objects were transformed into a field of inquiry. Concepts of primordiality, ritual, nostalgia, and familiarity function as analytical lenses for interpreting the home–object relationship and revealing home ethnography. As the autoethnographic outcome, the “home panorama” presents the interior space as a linear narrative.