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In Alevi belief, people are gender neutral community and women and men have equal rights in many fields. In the religious hierarchical structure, experience in belief is essential principal. In this context, it is come across the existence of women in ∗ Yazışma adresi: Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Güzel Sanatlar Eğitimi Bölümü Müzik Eğitimi ABD, 58140 Kampüs, Sivas (e-posta:[email protected]) Erciyes Üniversitesi, BAP Birimi tarafından desteklenen SBD-12-4096 kodlu doktora tez projesinden üretilen bu çalışmanın dar kapsamlı hali Yeditepe Üniversitesi’nde düzenlenen Uluslararası Kadın Hayatlarını Yazmak Sempozyumu’nda 20 Nisan 2014 tarihinde “Sivas Beydili Köyü Müzik Pratiklerinde Kadın” başlığı altında sunulmuştur. Anatolian Alevi belief who are religious leaders. For instance, Kadıncık Ana is the female leader after death of Hacı Bektas Veli and educated Abdal Musa who is accepted to be founder of Bektashism. One of the other female leaders except Kadıncık Ana is Anşa Bacı. Anşa Bacı is the wife of Veli Baba who left Hubyar Ocak (guild) by thinking that this ocak became closer to the Sunni belief and established another ocak. After his death, Anşa Bacı became the leader of this ocak. The members (talip) of this ocak are named as Babacı and/or subscribe people to Anşa Bacı. Talips who used the notion of Baba instead of Dede as the religious leader in Alevi belief and described themselves as subscribe people to Baba and got seperated from other Alevi communitites with their appearance of a closed society having traditional life styles and religious beliefs and sustaining their generation as based on blood bonds. Therefore, they are described as Sıraç by other Alevi communities. Beydili Village, located on the 30 km northwest of Hafik town (Sivas), is a a village which arouse interest because this community pertain to Anşa Bacı and sustains their traditional elements. The present study is based on field researches during summer seasons in 2002-2004 and 2012-2013. Within the light of data obtained from participant observation and in-depth interviews, based on the female identity in the traditional culture of Beydili Village pertaining to Anşa Bacı Ocağı, woman’s role and its reflection on musical practices in Cem Sect (Cem Tarikatı) are addressed.

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