THE BELIEFS AND RITUALS OF BIRTH, MARRIAGE AND DEATH IN THE KAYSERI UYGHUR MIGRANT COMMUNITY

Abstract

Human life’s divide to important different phases. Although these phrases attract individual’s life space, these phases are related to some rituals into social life. Symbolic rituals manage the statutes; its passing orders, its acceptance conditions and these standardized behaviours constitutes the area of imagined symbolic forms of mean. Rituals are changed according to social reality. But these changes can be different evolution rates in some eras. Migration is one of the factors that affect this process. The interaction between migrant culture and local culture develops new cultural processes in the culture. This study is subject to set the belief and ritual heritages of birth, marriage, death in Uighur Turks that are forced to migration from East Turkestan and established in Kayseri. The study data were obtained and interpreted from by interview and participant observation techniques.

Keywords

• Uighurs
• East Turkestan
• Migration
• Ritual