ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two different ethnographic projects. The first took place in a relatively remote mountain village in Turkey where I lived from August 1980 until July 1982. The second was conducted in 1984–5 among Turks living in Belgium. While the general focus of my research was the relation between religion and gender, particularly notions about procreation, this chapter concentrates on one of the major religious rituals – the hajj and its meanings.
