@article{2019,title={BELIEFS AND PRACTICES REGRADING BIRTH AMONGST THE AVSHARS LIVING IN KAYSERI AND IS SURROUNDING AREAS},abstractNode={In this study, beliefs and practices related to birth, one of the transition rituals in Avshars villages in Kayseri and its environs, discussed. The study area is limited to Kayseri’s Pınarbaşı District’s central neighborhoods and villages. Therefore, other settlements were exluded from this research. However, the views of Avshars living in the center of Kayseri were also consulted. In the study, beliefs and practices that were performed before and after birth were examined by addressing these beliefs and practices related to birth. For this reason, prenatal beliefs and practices consist of beliefs and practices regarding infertility treatment, conception, contraception, giving birth to a healthy child, craving, determination of the child’s sex, birth preparation and birth. The practices performed during childbirth consist of beliefs and practices regarding the umbilical cord and placenta. In addition, in the study, postpartum beliefs and practices such as puerperality, puerperal fever, becoming forty days old, naming, first teething and first hair cutting were addressed. According to the beliefs and practices examined, prenatal practices are mostly related to the mother, while the postnatal practices are mostly related to both the mother and the child. In the study, it is aimed to reveal that the Turkish culture shows unity and integrity wherever in the world and to incorporate these beliefs and practices that are almost forgotten into the literature. One of the ways to ensure the continuation of Turkish culture from past to the present is to write the folk beliefs and practices down. },author={Bayram POLAT-Mehmet Gökhan ASLAN},year={2019},journal={Turkish Studies-Social Sciences}}