Özet:

Anthropologically, culture represents the entire material and spiritual accumulation of society. Cultural change means the change of society as a whole or with certain institutions as a component of various processes and cultural factors. The subject of cultural change in this article is addressed in the example of Çukurca, a border town in eastern Turkey. Starting from the last century and mainly from the past 25-30 years (after 1980), the corner stones in the process of change have been revealed within the framework of the "comprehensive approach", which is the fundamental distinctive feature of the Anthropological perspective. The first in the study was in December 2006 and the last in July 2008 with a total of 14 people from different sections (politics, peasants, network members, workers, officials, doctors, religious officers, and traders). On the basis of the findings obtained from the field work, four separate periods have been identified that have influenced the region’s achievement of today’s culture. The first period begins with the Nasturists leaving the area after the Nasturi rebellion where the foundations were thrown towards the formation of the current population structure of the district. In the second period, which began with the construction of the Cukurca-Hakkari road in 1964, more interactions with the province center began to occur. In the third period (1980-1990) the weight of production-consumption relations began to necessarily move into the country, starting with the increase in border security. The fourth period begins in the 1990s. The obvious determining element in other periods is the direction of production and consumption relations, while the main determining element in this period is the terror. As a result of security concerns, migration from the villages to the district center and outside the district has a profound impact on the family, family and family system as well as the production-consumption habits.