@article{2018,title={TRADİTİONS BEFORE AND AFTER BABY BİRTH İN OSKEMEN (KAZAKHSTAN)},abstractNode={The birth being one of the important transition periods of human life brings ego and integrity to mother, confidence to father and power to relatives and ancestors since every birth increases the number of members in family. Increase in ancestry means the rise in power and solidarity. As being the beginning of human life, the birth has a big importance for kazakh people. Motherhood begins from following some traditions willing to be pregnant and has to fulfill the procedures required by the customs, much the same it has for all Tukish Tribes. The birth being one of the important transition periods of human life that's why kazakh people meet it with great love like all tribes do.Correspondingly, there are various beliefs and customs relating to the birth in social life. In this paper, the information about beliefs and rituals accepted among Kazakh people in East Kazakhstan before giving birth, during and after that process will be presented .},author={Selman ŞİMŞEK-- Ayşe A. DİNÇ},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}