@article{article_493627, title={Sensing “Place”: Performance, Oral Tradition and Improvisation in the Hidden Temples of Mountain Altai}, journal={Antakiyat}, volume={1}, pages={261–289}, year={2018}, author={Dölek, İlbey}, keywords={place,ritual,temple,Ak Jang,Sary Bür}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"> <font color="#333333">This article suggests that during two Ak Jang (“White Way”) Sary Bür (“Yellow Leaves”) rituals in hidden open-air temples in Mountain Altai, kaleidoscopic relations are created through bodily movements, oral poetry, epic, and song. These components stimulate three interrelated senses of “place” for participants: a topographical, indigenous “place of gatherings;” a numinous interactive spiritual place; and a situational “being-in-place” that serve to strengthen personhood and enable personal transitions in the face of difficult contemporary political and natural change. </font> <br /> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>}, number={2}, publisher={Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi}