Özet:

Yasar Kemal is among the important novelists of Turkish and world literature. The success of Yasar Kemal, who reproduced the oral narratives of Anatolian societies in contemporary novel fiction and carried these narratives to a universal level, originates from the fact that the rituals in the collective memory of these societies are handled in a realist way with their social-cultural foundations. At the same time Yasar Kemal has aestheted many social phenomena in the form of novel fiction. He reflects social reality which embedded in ecological cycle through novel heroes when he writes his novels. All these features leads to sociological and anthropological points of view to Yasar Kemal’s novels. Therefore, in the general sense, the inferences about different culture, societies and human beings can be got from his novels. In this study, the human dimension of the burial customs of the Turkmen tribes in Yaşar Kemal’s novels, especially in Cukurova region, will be evaluated and the importance and function of some practices in these rituals, especially lamenting, will be examined. In this respect, the study includes data revealing the social cultural foundations of burial rituals and laments in the Anatolian Turkmen culture.

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