Imaginary Views of Death: Cemetery, Identity, and Memory (The Case of Yazidis in Turkey)

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dc.authoridSAGIR, ADEM/0000-0003-0763-0518
dc.contributor.authorSagir, Adem
dc.contributor.authorTayanc, Mehmet
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-24T19:29:50Z
dc.date.available2024-12-24T19:29:50Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentSiirt Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe present study attempts to explore how death and beliefs fashion burial spaces. Building on in-depth interviews, we investigate Yazidis' images and symbols employed in their cemeteries and how those materials carry traces of their beliefs and cultural practices. To put it another way, we attempt to expound on the belief practices of Yazidis, the smallest minority indigenous to Turkey, through their cemeteries with the help of the visual ethnography approach. Accordingly, we collected the data through interviews with 14 Yazidis living in 5 different villages of Batman and Siirt provinces and observations in four cemeteries. The distinct contribution of this study may root in its addressing of how funeral rituals and symbols play a role in maintaining community memory in beliefs. Our findings suggest that religious memory plays a significant role in preserving religious culture and keeping the past alive.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/00219096231188957
dc.identifier.issn0021-9096
dc.identifier.issn1745-2538
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85167331892
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/00219096231188957
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12604/7273
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001044125500001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage Publications Inc
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Asian and African Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241222
dc.subjectTurkey
dc.subjectYazidi
dc.subjectYazidism
dc.subjectidentity
dc.subjectritual memory
dc.subjectcemetery
dc.subjectsociology of death
dc.titleImaginary Views of Death: Cemetery, Identity, and Memory (The Case of Yazidis in Turkey)
dc.typeArticle

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