UNUTULMAYA YÜZ TUTMUŞ GELENEKSEL BİR OYUN: PEÇİÇ

• Main Authors: Gökhan Karabudak, Bestami Bozoğullarından
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Motif Foundation 2020-03-01
• Series: Motif Akademi Halkbilimi Dergisi
• Subjects: gaziantep; culture; tradition; game; peçiç
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1005817

In parallel with the developments in the world, the rate of change of culture is increasing. In the process of change, some traditions are changing, and some traditions are coming to the stage of extinction. “Peçiç” is one of the games that has not been able to keep up with the changes and updates in question and has entered the process of being forgotten. The stage that the digital game industry has reached and the demand it sees together with peçiç is the reason why many traditional games played together without any adult-child distinction have entered this process. Peçic is a game of chance, competition and strategy, played in two people or two teams, using sea shells on a plus-shaped floor divided into squares. The indispensable game of long winter nights, Ramadan days and bath entertainments, the dispatcher started to disappear after the environments in which it was played have lost its current status. Based on the data obtained from the written sources, this game, which has been played for more than a century, must be recorded without being destroyed. The game, which has been mentioned in historical sources, novels, letters, deserves a detailed examination in this age, where cultural differences are of great importance due to uniformization. In order to revive the game, it is seen that various organizations have been trying to raise awareness by organizing award winning tournament tournaments in recent years. This awareness support aim for a long time in various regions of Turkey regardless of the origin of the game work, which is known for and is played, local singing and differences in gameplay format thus gains local nature and has reached the conclusion that a part of the position of Turkish culture.