HOSPITALITY AS AN ETHNIC MARKER IN TRADITIONAL AZERBAIJANI CULTURE Cover Image

AZERBAYCAN'IN GELENEKSEL KÜLTÜRÜNDE ETNİK BİR İŞARET OLARAK MİSAFİRPERVERLİK
HOSPITALITY AS AN ETHNIC MARKER IN TRADITIONAL AZERBAIJANI CULTURE

Author(s): Fatma Ganiyeva
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture
Published by: Motif Halk Oyunları Eğitim ve Öğretim Vakfı
Keywords: Azerbaijani hospitality; traditions; ethnic marker; society; material culture; spiritual culture;

Summary/Abstract: Hospitality is one of the traditions formed in close interaction with family and family life. The customs of hospitality and other welfare characteristics existing in each folk are fulfilled mutually. Hospitality is a custom that combines the conditions of daily lives of people, that is, their life. This custom also involves relationships that arise between people. This tradition includes methods of using items that serve to pay for either material or moral requirements and a sequence of rules of behavior that form the basis of this process. So, these include social, economic and domestic issues. When examining the modern interpretation of hospitality, we encounter many times in the history of culture that many symbols have been preserved and actively interpreted to this day. So, before we get acquainted with the tradition of hospitality, today we come across symbols that may lose their original meaning, but are preserved in a different usage. Such symbol-vectors are absolute - examples of home, material, spiritual culture and dialogue, often expressed in mutual gratitude. The rapid development taking place in all spheres of society is first of all reflected in the innovations in custom and traditions. Although these innovations benefit from traditional sources, they are being modernized in form and adapted to the existing needs of the people.

  • Issue Year: 14/2021
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 956-967
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Turkish