Adana mani tradition and mani's compiled in Adana

Manis are one of the oldest and most common products of the anonymous folk poetry tradition. They continue to exist as an important part of verbal tradition, for centuries. In the historical process, manis had a developement. This development, provided an important culturel herritage for the manis. For this reason, the manis present useful information for the tradition of verbal poetry and cultural environment of people. The purpose of this study is, analyzing the current situation of Adana manis and determining the impact of social structure on the verbal tradition, by using manis. In this study, the verbal tradition of manis and the manis that compiled in Adana are examined within six main sections. In the first section, "The Introduction", the information provided on the subject, purpose, scope, limits and the method of this research. Historical, geographical, economic and socio-cultural structure of the region are introduced. First section includes information about previous studies related to the research subject and context-centered theories used in the thesis. In the second section, mani is intruduced as a word and a concept. The origin, sources and formation of the mani is emphasized. It's place in the historical documants, the relations with the other species and functions are described. In the third section, manis compiled from Adana are analyzed according to performance theory. Mani-tellers are introduced by according to their general characteristics and their characteristics in the performance environment. In this section, the performing environment of the Adana manis has been examined in terms of time, space, music, mutual enforcement elements and external factors. In the third section, the compiled manis are examined in terms of measure, hyme, number of verses and verse arrangement. In the fifth section, the language style of Adana manis is studied. The sixth section of the study is devoted to examining the content of the Adana manis. The subjects of the manis, theme, place, time, people and folklore elements are emphasized while the Adana songs are examined in terms of content. There is an evaluation part at the end of each section. The study is concluded with the "Results" section, "Adana Mani Texts" given in alphabetical order, "Oral Resources", "Written Sources", "Network Resources", "Custom Names Directory", "List of Local Words", "Photos", "Resume".