The Women Representatives of Oral Culture

Abstract

Oral culture is the reflection of the history. experience, habits. traditions and customs of a community. it gets enriched with the observations and experiences of a community, and taking its place in the memory <􀂘f the community it is spread and put into words. Such utters are undergone variations and eventually become an oral culıure product. Such oral cu/ture products as legendı» ta/es, anecdotes. epics. poets, nursery rhymes, laments and folk songs are the underlying examp/es of these prodııcts. The representatives and perf'ormers of these varied prodııcts are story tellers, aşıks, folk minstre/s and poet singers. having d(tferent characteristics. The representatives of oral cu/tııre. whose repertory is created and enriched throııgh .feeding from the commıınity they /ive, put into ıvordı· ıheir products in such oral cıılture environments as lıenna nights, village weddings. coııntryfests, village rooms, aşıks 'cafes. fairgroıınds. ôşıks 'jests and simi/ar places.

Özet

Sözlü kültür, bir toplumun tarihi, deneyimleri, alışkanlıklarıdır, geleneklerin-göreneklerin yansımalarıdır. Toplumun gözlemleriyle, tecrübeleriyle zenginleşir ve toplum hafızasında yer edinerek yayılır, dile gelir. Söz konusu dile getirişlerde, çeşitlilik göstererek birer sözlü kültür ürünü olurlar artık. Destanlar, masallar,