The Real Story Behind Tu bi-Shvat (original) (raw)
A Preliminary Report On The Tumuli In Sinop
Arkeoloji ve Sanat Dergisi, 2020
Sinop çevresindeki çeşitli tümülüslerde 2013-2016 yılları arasında Sinop Arkeoloji Müzesi Müdürlüğü tarafından kurtarma kazıları gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu kazılar, tümülüslerin kaçak kazılar sonucunda tahrip edildiğini ve mezar envanterlerinin soyulduğunu ortaya koymuştur; dolayısıyla mezar buluntuları yok denecek kadar azdır. Ancak tümülüslerin altında ortaya çıkarılan mezar yapıları, Sinope ve hatta Paphlagonia bölgesindeki mezar mimarisine ışık tutacak özelliklere sahiptir. Mezar yapılarının kesme taş bloklardan inşa edildiği, mezar odalarının bindirme tonoz, bazı örneklerde de beşik tonoz çatı ile örtüldüğü gözlemlenmektedir. Tam olarak korunmuş mezar envanteri olmaması nedeniyle kesin tarihlemelerinin yapılması mümkün değildir. Fakat mimari özellikler dikkate alınarak, mezar yapılarını genel olarak Hellenistik Dönem'e tarihlendirmek mümkündür. Ayrıca, araştırılmakta olan tümülüslerin coğrafi konumları eski yerleşmelerle ilgili bilgi sağlama açısından önemli bir unsurdur. Bu makalede, tümülüslerin konumları, çevre ile olan ilişkileri ve mezar yapılarının mimari özellikleri değerlendirilecektir.
2020
This article illustrates how using qualitative and quantitative social scientific methods together can help us examine sociocultural phenomena in precise, informative, and potentially useful ways. Using freely listed ethnographic data about what qualities Tuvans associate with “good” and “bad” Tuvan people, we examine general cultural patterns of Tuvan virtues. The data was collected in Tuva in 2009–2010 by interviewing nearly 100 Tuvans in Kyzyl and Western Tuva. We also explore within-group contrasts by applying standard modeling techniques to this ethnographic data, finding demographic associations with listing specific items and those items’ salience. We conclude with a discussion of the promise and limitations of these methods.
Seminal Omissions: Giving Tumtum v'androginos Their Due
Oqimta Vol 11, 2025
https://www.oqimta.org.il/oqimta/2025/eng-abst-kessler11.pdf This article sets forth a novel reading of the rabbinic category of tumtum v’androginos. It offers an alternative to the dominant interpretive framework by positing and historicizing a process through which a single category, tumtum v’androginos, becomes “tumtum” and “androginos.” Central to this historicization is a (re)contextualization of what is increasingly cited as the defining, “seminal,” text about tumtum and androginos in rabbinic sources: Tosefta Bikkurim 2:3-7. Placing this tradition in its larger rabbinic textual context and situating it among other rabbinic mentions of tumtum v’androginos invites us to revisit and reconsider the meanings and functions of tumtum v’androginos as a rabbinic categorization as it develops over time. Ultimately, contextualizing t. Bik. 2:3-7 also offers alternative ways of seeing the place of nonbinary gendered bodies in rabbinic sources and provides a fuller understanding of rabbinic constructions of gender within halakhic sources.
Tu Bi- or not Tu BiShevat? A Festal Rabbanite Response to the Karaite Question
Revue des Études Juives, 2023
The manner in which the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, initially a date of purely technical significance, evolved into a minor festival is shrouded in mystery. In this article, I examine an eleventh-century liturgical text for ṭu bi-Šebhaṭ, a qedušta from the Cairo Geniza. The content of the piyuṭ-poem appears to situate the sacralization of ṭu bi-Šebhaṭ in the context of Rabbanite-Karaite polemic, and particularly the confrontation between the Yešibha Ge'on Ya'aqobh of Jerusalem and the abhele ṣiyon community nearby. Appreciation of the historical circumstances and ideological commitments of these two communities-made possible by recent Geniza discoveries-helps to shed new light on the liturgy, as well as the religious evolution of the date that today is observed as the Jewish Arbor Day.
An Ethnomusicological Discussion of Bì Té, the Chanted Tales of the Huli
Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands: Studies in Form, Meaning, and Sociocultural Context, 2011
The Huli inhabit the Tagali River basin and surrounding areas, a region of about 6,180 square kilometres that lies mainly between the altitudes of 1,550 and 3,500 metres. There are no distinct seasons in this part of the world. Daily morning sunshine and afternoon rains encourage the cultivation of the staple sweet potato. The Huli also rear pigs as their most important exchange item, which is used for bridewealth and debt settlement. An egalitarian society with a cognatic descent system and multilocal residence, the Huli do not live in villages, but in small hamlets dispersed amongst their sweet potato gardens on clan (hāmeigini) lands. Each hamlet basically contains two main houses-one for a man, his sons around seven years or older, and any visiting male kin, and the other for his wife, unmarried daughters, younger sons, and any visiting female kin. Huli society has strict gender segregation based on cultural beliefs about behavioural etiquette and bodily pollution, and men and women traditionally do not enter each others' dwellings. The houses are small, closed structures, each with a doorway covered by horizontal wooden slabs. They are built flat on the ground to retain heat during the cold night hours. A fire burns inside each house, and its smoke filters through and helps to preserve the grass roof (figure 1). At night, the house members lie around the fire on the ground or on low, sleeping ledges attached to the wall. 1
Preface: Ninety Years – Something Old and Something New
Sator, 2021
The book you have in your hands is not an ordinary book. It is the first wider approach to Udmurt folklore in English. Udmurt folkloristics have a relatively long history: taking into account the general pattern of cultural development it is more than one and a half centuries. Unhappily for international communication, it is overwhelmingly in Russian. This is the first systematic attempt to open up this rich material to the international scholarly community.
Persistence of the Duwaa Kaja: Medical Implications of an Ancestral Rite
In the Southern Philippines, the practice of an ancestral rite called pagkaja is seen to permeate the lives of some members of Tausug society. This rite is a homage to the ancestors, a mechanism for the removal of misfortunes and illnesses believed to be caused by the ancestors, and a fulfilment of a traditional pact called janji. This study presents the nature, performance, and persistence of pagkaja, and argues that its persistence is deeply rooted in tradition and is difficult to breach. This study also argues that the polygynous Tausug marriage perpetuates the rite, the fear of ancestors' wrath construed in a phenomenon called sukut, as a vehicle for the continuative performance of the rite, and finally the medical benefits derived which contribute to its continuance.
Ritual and Political Critique: Tuan Guru's subversive pietism
Shaykh ‘Abdullah ibn Qadi ‘Abdus Salam (lived 1712-1807), more commonly known as Tuan Guru, was chiefly responsible for the institutionalization of Islam in Cape Town. The intellectual matrix of this institutionalization was his massive compendium of Islamic writings that was to play a central role in shaping the theology and ritual practices of Cape Muslims. While this compendium contained apparently very different types of subjects – a very philosophical “high theology” written side by side with devotional litanies, supplications and amulets characteristic of popular Sufism – we argue that they must be seen as interacting organically. These pietistic sections of the compendium played a crucial role in reinforcing and vivifying its theological component and, by extension, this theology’s critique of the colonial worldview.