A CULTURAL APPROACH TO EARTHQUAKE COPING STRATEGIES: EXAMPLES OF TURKISH FOLK POEMS AND MEMORATES
A CULTURAL APPROACH TO EARTHQUAKE COPING STRATEGIES: EXAMPLES OF TURKISH FOLK POEMS AND MEMORATES

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to ensure that the cultural dimension discussed among the strategies to cope with the earthquake and to propose the use of this cultural dimension in earthquake education. The documents of the study consist of Turkish folk poems and memorates. In the study, document analysis method, one of the qualitative data collection methods, was used; the data were interpreted with information obtained from descriptive analysis. As a result of the research, it has been observed that Turkish folk poems and memorates have supernatural, mystical, traditional beliefs and thoughts about earthquake. The positive cultural dimension related to the earthquake that is folk poems and in memorates is that unity and solidarity and glorify of the solidarity tradition. On the other hand, the negative cultural dimension is the belief that the earthquake is a punishment due to people violated the religion, tradition and custom. In addition, the social and political disintegrations that occurred during the earthquake were also interpreted as a negative cultural dimension. From this point of view, it is suggested that the cultural dimension of the earthquake is considered as an additional strategy in addition to the known coping strategies and is defined “cultural memory strategy”.

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