THE TRADITION OF SACRED VISITATION IN THE CONTEXT OF BODYLORE
BEDEN FOLKLORU BAĞLAMINDA KUTSAL ZİYARET GELENEĞİ

Author : Aktan Müge YILMAZ
Number of pages : 582-594

Abstract

Bodylore is the name of the field that researchs bodily states/stances/actions and their symbolical meanings. With a series of folklore research about the body in various subjects, bodylore became a sub-field in folklore field. In the aspect of cultural science, it could be seen that a body that produces culture in some situations embodies the culture. Meaning the body is available to be read as a cultural text. On the basis of this assumption, the concept of sacred visitation, practices that arises depending on visiting party and visited party factors, will be evaluated based on the sacred-body relations. In this work, for the research of the visitation phenomenon, a new approach is used as a result bodylore concept's applicability on visitation phenomenon was seen.

Keywords

bodylore, folklore, sacred visitation, tomb, sacred

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