ABSTRACT
Festivals are highly influential elements in public life. This stems from their power to operate outside the limits and borders of daily life while still being situated in a socially constructed realm. This chapter examines the flow between the festival and daily life through an ethnographic analysis of liminalities that occur as part of the placemaking of Water Festival, in the small Turkish county of Kizilcahamam. It elaborates on Bourdieu's notion of doxa, since it is believed that the notion has more explanatory power of the festival's place-making process. The chapter interrogates the placemaking process together with the experiences and backgrounds of the agents participating in the festival and adopts a constructivist approach. Drawing from the work of Turner and Van Gennep, the chapter scrutinizes the flow of the festival as three phases: preparation, festival duration and post-festival periods. The chapter discusses the Kizilcahamam Water Festival's processes by drawing upon the theories of Turner, Foucault and Bourdieu.
