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Ancient Festivals in Kütahya: A Narrative Research
Nil Duban, Ramazan Yıldırım
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5526/2016.09.005
Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey; Kütahya Yoncalı Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, Kütahya, Turkey
The aim of this research is to analyse the celebration of ancient festivals through narrations. The study is a qualitative research in which narrative research was employed. The study was carried out in Kütahya. The participants were selected using the snowball sampling technique which is a part of purposeful sampling. In the study, the data were collected through unstructured interviews, which are commonly used in narrative research. According to the results of the analysis, the festivals were examined as three themes: religious festivals, national festivals, and seasonal festivals. Preparations before the religious festivals include cleaning, shopping, and preparing meals. In the morning of the first festival day, fathers go to prayer with their sons. Then they visit cemetery. Women do not join these visits. In festival visits, guests are given socks and handkerchief. Preparations of national festivals begin long before. Streets are decorated with flags which signal the preparations. Celebrations mostly take place in stadiums. Reports showed that the celebrations of Nowruz are rare in Kütahya. Reports indicated that in Kütahya, Hıdırellez is much more frequently celebrated in contrast to Nowruz. Painting and clinking eggs are also seen in the celebration of Hıdırellez.
Festival celebrations in Kütahya, religious festivals, national festivals, seasonal festivals, narration, tradition
Sociology Study, September 2016, Vol. 6, No. 9, 591-603
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