@article{2017,title={Birth- a Rite of Passage: Ways of Treatment},abstractNode={Although birth- which is a rite of passage- is a biological phenomenon, it has certain ritual practices. The mother and the baby, who are believed to be unprotected, are put to protection through various religious/magical procedures. It was found that postnatal practices to protect the mother and the baby were still continuing in the villages of Dikili. This study considers changing postnatal practices. While it was found on considering those practices that traditional practices associated with Central Asia were continuing as coherent with Muslim traditions, it was also found that some of the traditions were changing. While traditional practices continuing from the past until the present, they underwent changes. Ease in communication and transport due to modernisation was observed to have caused changes in traditional practices Traditional methods of therapy began to change or to disappear with modernisation and especially with the replacement of some methods of therapy by modern medicine. Practices such as “salting” especially as a method of therapy for babies were on the other hand found to continue. This study analyses the postnatal practices differing from the past. For this purpose, data on post-natal practices were recorded in image and in sound by using the method of oral history. Then the recordings were decoded and were analysed in interpretivist paradigm. The study was conducted in some villages of Dikili in the period between July 14 and September 16, 2016. The study includes findings obtained from villages where people describing themselves as Yoruks and Balkan immigrants live.},author={Meryem BULUT},year={2017},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}