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This study elaborates on village rooms, which come forward as the space for social and cultural identities within Turkish cultural life. These rooms still exist in Cinis village of Erzurum Province. These rooms with folk architecture have the same character with dwellings such as council of friends, youth organization and man room. In this sense, masculine rooms have significant functions in the rural areas where traditions are dominant as the public spaces in which individuals feel they belong to somewhere and surrounded with values. In public dwellings –also called as masculine rooms in some regions- the needs of the rooms are regulated with cooperation arising as collective work and herfene. Besides, all needs of these rooms –from cleaning to heating- are maintaned on shift basis and within some certain rules. Participation to the room and the responsibilities about the room are shaped based on voluntarism. The unity, solidarity and generosity in this structure is fed with ahi-order and Turkish Islamic guild within Turkish society. Furthermore, the sense of belonging to the rooms are experienced most intensely within the frame of religion in these rooms. While religious belonging requires to be belong to the holy and to feel it –beyond the earthly space- to be belong to a society or a group affects the social existence of a person. Therefore, these rooms -created with a culturally common understanding in the form of a sect, even a cult- fulfill significant services for societies today, as in the past. This study does not aim to test a hypothesis, but to understand the experiences of the people and how they explain the meaning of these experiences. While doing so, the information about the masculine rooms are acquired within an oral interaction with some certain people without any interview protocol. The interaction is condcuted in semi interview and semi structured interview technique. |
