Abstract:

The province of Trabzon is one of the important cities of our country in general and specifically in Eastern Black Sea region in terms of historical and cultural processes. Trabzon has an important place at the point of representing the ethnographical and oral cultural aspects of the Eastern Black Sea region. One of the most important reasons for achieving this position is that it has been the cultural center of the region for centuries. The province has always been a cultural center because it has both a well-established history and is a busy seaport and because it is the most economically developed province of the region. A common and holistic approach towards the research-based forms and techniques of the scope of child folklore and the types included within this scope has not been put forth as one of the topics covered by Turkish folklore research which has become popular since the early 1990s. In the pioneer studies and in latter studies with similar characteristics in terms of examination methods and techniques, it is seen that children's games are mostly examined in terms of characteristic features and materials. In this study, Trabzon region has been determined as the sample area for traditional children's games, which has not been studied holistically before. Children's games determined through field research in the region will be evaluated in a multifaceted way in terms of historical and cultural processes, characteristic features, functions and continuity potentials with popular culture. Proposals and suggestions for the examination of children's games, one of the important representations of children's folklore, in the context of modern folklore approaches will be put forward.

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