TY  - EJOU
AU  - 
T1  - Sacred Rituals at a Chepni Village in Western Anatolia
T2  - Humanities and Social Sciences Letters

PY  - 2015
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
SN  - 2312-4318

AB  - This article basically contains some information translated from a (Turkish-originated) French scholar’s ethnographic work. It is about the descendants of previously-nomadic Turkoman tribe of Chepnis, in Western Anatolia. Those people preserved most of their authentic social structure even after becoming sedentary. Their social dynamic impetus itself drives its force from the venerated Anatolian version of Shiism. Since the vast majority of Anatolian soil belongs to the Sunnite interpretation of Islamic tradition; Chepnis and similar closed communities had a hard time throughout the Ottoman history.
KW  - 
DO  - 10.18488/journal.73/2015.3.2/73.2.72.86