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To what extent can the folklore of modern Egypt be traced back across time to ancient Egypt? This dissertation aims to answer this question through a case study of concepts and practices related to human reproduction across 5000 years of Egyptian history. The continuity of such concepts and practices has been suggested by many authors, but none have done systematic research to prove their assertions. This work traces these concepts and practices back in time, from contemporary anthropological sources, to medieval authors like Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn al-Hajj, back through the hagiographic literature documenting the battle for the faith of Egyptians between early Christians and pagans, to classical ancient Egyptian texts, art and archaeological sources. Attention is paid to systematic similarity diachronically, and suggestions are made as to the reason for their continuity, in spite of such major changes like language and religion. Among the topics covered are treatments for humidity in the womb as a cause of female infertility and male impotence caused by magic. Rituals carried out until today at sacred sites including ancient temples, churches and mosques are examined. The origins of the contemporary Egyptian post-natal ritual carried out on the seventh day after birth and related rituals are sought in Islamic, Coptic and ancient Egyptian sources. Finally, actions taken to prevent insufficient lactation and barrenness are explored. It is hoped that this study will inspire and encourage other scholars to incorporate material from all time periods of Egyptian history into their research in order to enhance the insights possible. This is a copy of my PhD dissertation from the University of Chicago
HISTORY OF THIRD CENTURY PALESTINE RONALD REUVEN KIMELMAN This thesis is a study of some of the achievements of Rabbi Yohanan (bar Nappaha) in third century Palestine within the context of the Roman Empire. After the initial survey of the biographical data, part one discusses his economic, social, political and academic role, respectively, in Tiberias. Part two discusses Rabbi Yohanan's response to the theological challenges posed by the varieties of Christianity of his day. These include mainstream Christianity, primarily through the Church Father
ScholarWorks at WMU Dear Beyond
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations, 2004
My project. Dear Beyond, a collection of poetry, examines the connection between landscape—both internal and external, or private and public—and environment. My poetry reflects my own unique background and my struggles with emplacement, or the placing of oneself in any particular landscape. It aims to challenge dominant paradigms of voice, expression, and even inquiry; it questions traditional, systematic forms of inquiry such as the Cartesian idea of an essential separation between object and subject. Culture and landscape, I have discovered, manifest themselves everywhere, in variegated forms: in spaciousness or intimacy, in internal and external contexts, in tactile experiences, in focused or dissipated attention. This is where my poems come from, as well as where they aim for.
Tobelorese Ethnobiology: The Folk Classification of "Biotic Forms"
1980
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1980. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 361-373). Includes appendix: The Tobelorese classification of floral forms (leaves 374-464). Photocopy. University Microfilms No. 8109818. [Abstract published in: Dissertation Abstracts International 41(11):4760-A, May 1981.] This ethnographic study of folk biology among the Tobelorese [= Tobelo] people (of Halmahera Island, Indonesia) outlines local cultural presumptions about classifying flora and fauna, describes the system of nomenclature in terms consistent with the morphology and syntax of the Tobelorese language, and analyzes the local folk system of classification within a posited semantic domain of "biotic forms". In the local linguistic context, dialectal differences, multilingualism, an apparently strict in-law name taboo, and particular speech registers for which Tobelorese consider their language inappropriate are shown to affect word formation, the adoption of foreign plant and animal names, and other aspects of ethnobiological classification. Culturally, the belief that names for plants and animals were set down by ancestors vastly more familiar with local biota than are their descendants, the notion that there is a "proper" name for virtually all easily visible plants and animals, and that much knowledge is and should remain esoteric, justify several alternative ways in which Tobelorese may reconcile individual or dialectal variation to determine "proper" details of classification consistent with these presumptions. Nomenclature is considered in detail. The importance of recognizing the lexemic status of homonymous and polysemous terms is illustrated; and means of recognizing lexemes having the same form as non-lexemic expressions are detailed. A morphosyntactic classification of lexemic types is here applied to the formation of terms in this domain. Unlabelled Tobelorese folk taxa, including the highest-level class BIOTIC FORM, are posited; and new methods developed for determining and evaluating such covert folk taxa are discussed. A critique of other procedures based on perceived similarities among plants and animals shows that the only local cultural significance of those classes may be their sudden appearance as a result of tests designed to find them, that similarities observed may not be those used in hierarchically relating folk taxa, and that such classes do not in any case belong in a linguistic description. The analysis of Tobelorese folk biological classification (the system of semantic relations among usually lexically labelled classes) provides various types of evidence for the distinctiveness of a "basic" level, and details methods for distinguishing basic terms. Taxonomic relations order the set of hierarchically related folk classes into eleven levels: the widest or "basic" level, along with six above and four below. Non-"regular" elements of this folk taxonomy include a "residue" of higher-level classes, nonsymmetric and disjunctive contrast, ambiguous subclass-superclass relations, and dual structural positions of a single class in the overall hierarchic structure. Also analyzed are other types of semantic relations among folk classes, including a 'mother'-'child' relation among FAUNAL FORMS, cross-cutting and intersecting subclasses of the basic class, and classification by growth stage and size. Detailed folk classificatory, nomenclatural, and systematic botanical information for all recorded FLORAL FORMS is given in an Appendix.
Cultural Renegades in Plutarch’s Lives
Phd Dissertation submitted to the Department of Classics, the University of Texas at Austin, 1997, 1997
Six figures in Plutarch’s Lives strayed from the customs of their native lands: Alcibiades, Alexander, Antony, Coriolanus, Sertorius and Themistocles. What do these six Lives reveal about Greek attitudes toward assimilation and ethnicity? The first chapter sets out interpretive strategies for reading Plutarch, addressing why questions of assimilation and ethnicity are important for understanding the Lives. The author surveys the phenomenon of assimilation in Plutarch’s day and earlier. He then discusses issues of nationalism and comparison, arguing that the Lives redefine Greek identity in a new Roman context. Because of Plutarch’s fidelity to his sources, his text reflects their concerns as well as his and can profitably be read as the product of a tradition of manufacturing Greek pride in their heritage.