Adana province public culture research pozanti district

This research study aims at explaining the birth, marriage, death traditions including the related belives, ceremonies and felicitations, public believes, folk kitchens, foklore andanonymous folk literature products which are the transition periods in Pozantı District of Adana Province.The first section deals with the folk culture and then after the information coming from the written resources, the information from oral resources is given. Later on, the relations of customs and believes coming from the oral resources and based on this information with old Turkish culture and the evaluation of them are assessed and fixed.The second section is about the anonymous folk literature. In this section, verse, verse prose, prose anonimous folk literature are examined. At the end of each section, format and content evaluation are realized. Furthermore a local glossary was prepared for Pozanti District.As a result in Pozantı folk literature, the traces of the structure of believes and cultures of both Central Asia and Anatolia are reached. All of this traces was continued by influenced Islam. These findings are explained in section evaluations.