Dead Burial Ceremony: An Anthropological Study

T his is an anthropological study; the study tries to show the tradition of death burial ceremony in Erbil city. The purpose of the study: the trial of describing and showing death burial ceremony according to Erbil's traditions and culture; to know how much effects does it have on the way people act and the changes that have happened to this ceremony and showing them; mentioning the functions of this ceremony. In this study ethnographical and comparative methods are used. Purposive sample is also used the type is (intensive sample) which contains 8 individuals the used tool in this study (interview and observation). The aim of the study: this ceremony keeps the way deaths are buried. This ceremony shows the death's social status; at the same time, the ceremony strengthens the social relations, till now this ceremony has not lost its respect. There have been some changes on the ceremony traditions and new traditions have been added as bringing women for reading holy Quraan and (mawlood) for money; according to that Erbil is a multicultural city. Exaggerations have been there because of Improvement of Erbil's economy. Salat isqat are done anymore because humans don't need this after they die. Death burial ceremony has functions like: cultural, social, regional and psychological.