%0 Journal Article
%T The Town Where Culture Transforms Into Identity: Harput
%A Birol AZAR
%J -
%D 2019
%X Although the rapid and dazzling change of social life, culture researches have shown that regardless of the civilization level of the society, people cannot rupture of their faith and moral structures that shape their daily life from the mystic and the ritualistic world at where their relations with extraordinary creatures exist. Despite the origin of the studies for protecting the cultural diversity/ richness goes back a long way, Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention, which was systematized with a universal approach all around the world and party countries made several commitments, was approved on 17 October 2003. Our country signed this convention on 19 January 2006 and became a party country on 27 March 2006. Oral culture is the memory of people and indispensable for the perpetuity of the societies. Custom-ritual-tradition-folkway-manners and practices, which we can name as social norms that are the genetic codes of societies, are the implement-tations that hold people in the cultural circle which they belong. Additionally, they allow the people to pursue a common concern for the future by implementing the sense of belonging and also they are binding if not obeyed. Protection of these is contingent upon their being known and sustained. With the rapid development of the communication technology, the narrative types existing in our oral tradition and the implementations depending on the custom such as belief, rite, ceremony and practices for daily life sank into oblivion. Nowadays, ignoring the mechanisms for transferring the culture and inability to provide transfer of the social norms that are the invisible attributions of the society to the next generations may be the most important problems of governments. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the problems and solutions for providing the transfer of culture with several examples about Harput which is an ancient town existing for centuries with its cultural identity
%K Harput
%K Somut Olmayan Kščltščrel Miras
%K sosyal normlar
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/had/issue/45665/575547