Themes That Provide Cultural Continuity in The Alevi Chepni Community: A Qualitative Research in Balikesir Karamanlar Village

Volume: 5 Number: 1 May 1, 2020
  • Şeniz Anbarlı Bozatay
TR EN

Themes That Provide Cultural Continuity in The Alevi Chepni Community: A Qualitative Research in Balikesir Karamanlar Village

Abstract

Balikesir proveince its environs provide homeland to the Chepnis who settled in the 19th century leaving their nomadic lifestyle. Chepnis one of the twenty-four tribes of the Oghuzes is a Turkish tribe known for their courage and combative aspects towards the enemy. It is noteworthy that the identity of Chepni in Balıkesir and vicinity is combined with the Alevi identity and expressed together. The sample of the study consists of male and female village residents who are selected by the purposeful sampling method in Karamanlar, an Alevi Chepni village. In the study, questions were asked within the context of the institution of “marriage”, in terms of the realization of marriage within and outside the group, the structure of the family, the procedures for the realization of marriages, the identity and origin, the ceremonies, the place of the stories in the transfer of culture from generation to generation, “musahiplik” the establishment of social integration and solidarity. The aim of this study is to emphasize the elements and practices that provide social integration by drawing attention to the mechanisms that the community prioritized in ensuring cultural continity in the village of Karamanlar which is entirely composed of Alevi Chepni population. The method of the study is a qualitative research based on an approach that prioritizes research and understanding in social environment. In this study, besides the interview method, observation method was also utilized. In accordance with the qualitative research process, there is no hypothesis ready to be tested. This research which is based on the principle of induction, tries to make sense of the themes that the Alevi Chepni community expresses hithin the framework of cultural continuty

Keywords

References

  1. Agacanov, S. G. (2004). Oğuzlar. İstanbul: Selenge.
  2. Albayrak, A. (2015). Alevi-Bektaşi ritüelleri ve temel kurumlarından hareketle sosyal bütünleşme.
  3. Sûfî Araştırmaları Dergisi. (12), 21-36. Aşkın, M. (2007). Kimlik ve giydirilmiş kimlikler, Atatürk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 10 (2), 213-220.
  4. Balkanlıoğlu, M.A. (2012). Alevi-Sünni evliliklerinin aile ilişkileri ile çocuk yetiştirme üzerine etkileri ve sosyal damgalama. Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Velî Araştırma Dergisi. 62, 163-182.
  5. Baş, T. Akturan, U. (1999). Nitel Araştırma Yöntemleri Nvivo 7.0 İle Nitel Veri Analizi, Ankara: Seçkin.
  6. Caferoğlu, A. (1954). Pallack, tahtacı ve çepni dillerine dâir, Journal Of Turkology, 11, 41-56.
  7. Creswell, J.W. (2016). Nitel araştırma yöntemleri, A. Budak, İ.Budak, Nitel çalışma tasarımı, 3.B.
  8. Mesut Bütün, Selçuk Beşir Demir, Çev .ed., Ankara. Coşkun, H. (2018). Alevi/Bektaşi geleneğinde dedelik kurumu sivas kangal türkmen alevileri örneği.

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

-

Journal Section

-

Authors

Şeniz Anbarlı Bozatay This is me

Publication Date

May 1, 2020

Submission Date

-

Acceptance Date

-

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 5 Number: 1

APA
Anbarlı Bozatay, Ş. (2020). Themes That Provide Cultural Continuity in The Alevi Chepni Community: A Qualitative Research in Balikesir Karamanlar Village. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi, 5(1), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.26899/inciss.278</doi>
AMA
1.Anbarlı Bozatay Ş. Themes That Provide Cultural Continuity in The Alevi Chepni Community: A Qualitative Research in Balikesir Karamanlar Village. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi. 2020;5(1):1-33. doi:10.26899/inciss.278</doi>
Chicago
Anbarlı Bozatay, Şeniz. 2020. “Themes That Provide Cultural Continuity in The Alevi Chepni Community: A Qualitative Research in Balikesir Karamanlar Village”. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi 5 (1): 1-33. https://doi.org/10.26899/inciss.278</doi>
EndNote
Anbarlı Bozatay Ş (May 1, 2020) Themes That Provide Cultural Continuity in The Alevi Chepni Community: A Qualitative Research in Balikesir Karamanlar Village. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi 5 1 1–33.
IEEE
[1]Ş. Anbarlı Bozatay, “Themes That Provide Cultural Continuity in The Alevi Chepni Community: A Qualitative Research in Balikesir Karamanlar Village”, Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1–33, May 2020, doi: 10.26899/inciss.278</doi>
ISNAD
Anbarlı Bozatay, Şeniz. “Themes That Provide Cultural Continuity in The Alevi Chepni Community: A Qualitative Research in Balikesir Karamanlar Village”. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi 5/1 (May 1, 2020): 1-33. https://doi.org/10.26899/inciss.278</doi>
JAMA
1.Anbarlı Bozatay Ş. Themes That Provide Cultural Continuity in The Alevi Chepni Community: A Qualitative Research in Balikesir Karamanlar Village. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi. 2020;5:1–33.
MLA
Anbarlı Bozatay, Şeniz. “Themes That Provide Cultural Continuity in The Alevi Chepni Community: A Qualitative Research in Balikesir Karamanlar Village”. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi, vol. 5, no. 1, May 2020, pp. 1-33, doi:10.26899/inciss.278</doi>
Vancouver
1.Şeniz Anbarlı Bozatay. Themes That Provide Cultural Continuity in The Alevi Chepni Community: A Qualitative Research in Balikesir Karamanlar Village. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi. 2020 May 1;5(1):1-33. doi:10.26899/inciss.278</doi>