The tradition of balance and its cultural contexts; The case of Diyarbakır

As in societies with oral history and oral culture tradition around the world, the tradition of dengbêj has also embraced the history and cultural values of its own society by carrying it to the future. This tradition, which preserves and transfers these historical and cultural values that it owns to the society, has been processed in the social memory by dealing with massacre, rebellion, love, epic, historical and social issues in its oral products. Dengbêjs, who deal with the events of the past as well as the events of the period in which he lived, in his works are of the nature of living history and value through the eyes of the society. In this direction, revealing this importance of the dengbêj tradition and examining the cultural reflections of dengbêj in Diyarbakır is the main purpose of this study. Keywords: Dengbêj, Diyarbakir, Mala Dengbêjan