Hicran Karataş
Biographic Data
| ID | 286871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hicran Karataş |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hicran |
| FAMILY NAME | Karataş |
| SIGNATURE | KARATAŞ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bartin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4134-9159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From the Operating Room to Everyday Life: The Sustained Liminality of Kidney Transplant Recipients
Kidney transplantation offers patients the prospect of a “second life,” yet this renewed existence does not necessarily mark the end of liminality. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in Turkey, this study examines how recipients of cadaveric ( n = 22) and living-related ( n = 26) kidney donations, along with their family caregivers, continue to navigate an unresolved threshold between illness and recovery. Data were collected through in-depth parti…
Death and Organ Donation Between Four Gates and Forty Posts: Insights From Alevi Faith
Alevi-Bektashi adherents constitute a significant population both in Türkiye and in the diaspora. Within the framework of the erkân (Alevi-Bektashi social norms), cadaveric organ donation is strongly encouraged as a pathway to the donor's eternal salvation, whereas living organ donations are subject to specific regulations. This study, based on in-depth face-to-face and online interviews with 21 ocakzade Alevi religious leaders (dede), investigat…
Beyond Death: Exploring Cultural Perceptions in Cadaveric Organ Donation
Advancements in medicine introduced a relatively invented death into our lives: Brain Death. It intermingles with our perceptions of classical death due to knowing the heart is beating, the color of the skin is pink, and the body's temperature is warm. Hence, accepting brain death as death might get complicated in terms of relatives of the brain-dead person. The interviews revealed that the reluctance to cadaveric organ donations is highly connec…
Was there a Better Time to be Mother? Past and Present of the Socio-Cultural Fear of Crime
Fear of crime refers to the fear of being a victim of crime, and it is nurtured by folklore and the media. Folklore fosters fear of crime by using oral tradition transferred throughout generations by updating old contexts into modern times. On the other hand, the media visualizes the possibility of being a victim by introducing the real-life experiences of victims. Contrary to folklore, victims presented in the media seem more accessible, and the…
The liminal experience of awaiting for a cadaveric kidney donation: I would not wish it on even my enemy
Ritual, Risk, and Danger: Avoidance Rituals among Antiquity Looters
This paper deals with the role of taboos and avoidance rituals as a means of psycho-cultural adaptation to taking personal risks among illicit antiquity looters in the Black Sea region of Turkey. My ethnographic fieldwork showed that antiquity looters indeed cared more about the possibility of being crushed by spiritual creatures than of being caught by law enforcement. Spiritual creatures, namely jinn, are the most unpredictable threats imagined…
Risk Rituals and Female Physicians: Reining Uncertainty with ritual in the Trans
Bu makalede, disipliner tarihlerin oluşturulmasında “gezgin kuram”ın (travelingtheory) rolünü ele alıyorum. En basit ifadeyle, “gezgin kuram,” “bir kuramın gerçekhayattaki özgün ifade anından koparılarak daha sonraki bir zaman ve mekânauygulanması” olarak tanımlanabilir (Said, 1983: 226). Makale bu varsayıma eleştirelyaklaşarak, kuramların disipliner arasındaki dolaşımlarının disipliner tarihlerinoluşturulmasındaki rolüne odaklanıyor. İlkin çevir…
Personal Experience Stories at the Crossroad of Archaeology and Folklore
Archaeological heritage of Turkey has been suffering for ages from severe destruction through the activities of local antiquities looters. The main reasons for this escalating phenomenon among the Turkish population include poverty, enhanced global demand for looted archaeological material in the worldwide market, gaps in laws, folklore, and the addiction to adrenalin experienced by looters. To comprehend the ongoing archaeological destruction ca…
Archaeological Destruction and Folklore: Spiritual Guidance and Looting in Turkey
The ongoing destruction of archaeological sites in Anatolia is well known but less so are the Anatolianâ Turkish oral traditions, beliefs and social norms that tolerate the irreversible damage being done by the local communities involved. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative research I undertook in the Black Sea region of Turkey where extensive looting occurs including the Safranbolu World Heritage Site. Using an ethno-graphic approac…
Asmaları Ağlatan Kadınlar: Menopoz Geçiş Döneminde Kara Talihin Ritüel Transferi
İnsan hayatı bir insanlık halinden diğerine geçişi temsil eden dönemler ve bu dönemlere eşlik eden geleneklerle çevrelenmiştir. Geçiş dönemleri hayatın fizyolojik, zihinsel, duygusal ve sosyal dönüm noktalarıdır. İnsanoğlu bu dönemlerin eşiğinde içten dışa ve nihayet sosyal anlamda kırılgan, savunmasız ve her zamankinden daha çok sosyal desteğe ihtiyaç duyduğu gibi, çoğunlukla doğa üstü alanın da desteğini yanına almak için bazı gelenekler, ritüe…
Türkiye'de Halk Hekimliği Uygulama Alanında İki Ekol: Şifacılar Ve Hekimler
Folklor disiplini bağlamında halk hekimliğinin yerel, özgün sağaltma yöntemleri pozitif bilimlerce geleneksel tıp (GT) şeklinde adlandırılır. Bu adlandırma, geçmişten günümüze ulaşan, deneyimlenmiş sağaltma metotlarından, modern tıp ilminin içeriğiyle, prensipleriyle çatışmayanlar için tercihen kullanılır. Faydası deneyimlenmiş bu uygulamalar dünyada ve ülkemizde iki ekolde yetişenlerce icra edilir: Şifacılar ve hekimler. Sağlık Bakanlığı’nın 201…
Türkiye'de Halk Hekimliği Uygulama Alanında İki Ekol: Şifacılar Ve Hekimler
Folklor disiplini bağlamında halk hekimliğinin yerel, özgün sağaltma yöntemleri pozitif bilimlerce geleneksel tıp (GT) şeklinde adlandırılır. Bu adlandırma, geçmişten günümüze ulaşan, deneyimlenmiş sağaltma metotlarından, modern tıp ilminin içeriğiyle, prensipleriyle çatışmayanlar için tercihen kullanılır. Faydası deneyimlenmiş bu uygulamalar dünyada ve ülkemizde iki ekolde yetişenlerce icra edilir: Şifacılar ve hekimler. Sağlık Bakanlığı’nın 201…
Asmaları Ağlatan Kadınlar: Menopoz Geçiş Döneminde Kara Talihin Ritüel Transferi
İnsan hayatı bir insanlık halinden diğerine geçişi temsil eden dönemler ve bu dönemlere eşlik eden geleneklerle çevrelenmiştir. Geçiş dönemleri hayatın fizyolojik, zihinsel, duygusal ve sosyal dönüm noktalarıdır. İnsanoğlu bu dönemlerin eşiğinde içten dışa ve nihayet sosyal anlamda kırılgan, savunmasız ve her zamankinden daha çok sosyal desteğe ihtiyaç duyduğu gibi, çoğunlukla doğa üstü alanın da desteğini yanına almak için bazı gelenekler, ritüe…
Archaeological Destruction and Folklore: Spiritual Guidance and Looting in Turkey
The ongoing destruction of archaeological sites in Anatolia is well known but less so are the Anatolianâ Turkish oral traditions, beliefs and social norms that tolerate the irreversible damage being done by the local communities involved. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative research I undertook in the Black Sea region of Turkey where extensive looting occurs including the Safranbolu World Heritage Site. Using an ethno-graphic approac…
Risk Rituals and Female Physicians: Reining Uncertainty with ritual in the Trans
Bu makalede, disipliner tarihlerin oluşturulmasında “gezgin kuram”ın (travelingtheory) rolünü ele alıyorum. En basit ifadeyle, “gezgin kuram,” “bir kuramın gerçekhayattaki özgün ifade anından koparılarak daha sonraki bir zaman ve mekânauygulanması” olarak tanımlanabilir (Said, 1983: 226). Makale bu varsayıma eleştirelyaklaşarak, kuramların disipliner arasındaki dolaşımlarının disipliner tarihlerinoluşturulmasındaki rolüne odaklanıyor. İlkin çevir…
Personal Experience Stories at the Crossroad of Archaeology and Folklore
Archaeological heritage of Turkey has been suffering for ages from severe destruction through the activities of local antiquities looters. The main reasons for this escalating phenomenon among the Turkish population include poverty, enhanced global demand for looted archaeological material in the worldwide market, gaps in laws, folklore, and the addiction to adrenalin experienced by looters. To comprehend the ongoing archaeological destruction ca…
Beyond Death: Exploring Cultural Perceptions in Cadaveric Organ Donation
Advancements in medicine introduced a relatively invented death into our lives: Brain Death. It intermingles with our perceptions of classical death due to knowing the heart is beating, the color of the skin is pink, and the body's temperature is warm. Hence, accepting brain death as death might get complicated in terms of relatives of the brain-dead person. The interviews revealed that the reluctance to cadaveric organ donations is highly connec…
Was there a Better Time to be Mother? Past and Present of the Socio-Cultural Fear of Crime
Fear of crime refers to the fear of being a victim of crime, and it is nurtured by folklore and the media. Folklore fosters fear of crime by using oral tradition transferred throughout generations by updating old contexts into modern times. On the other hand, the media visualizes the possibility of being a victim by introducing the real-life experiences of victims. Contrary to folklore, victims presented in the media seem more accessible, and the…
The liminal experience of awaiting for a cadaveric kidney donation: I would not wish it on even my enemy
Ritual, Risk, and Danger: Avoidance Rituals among Antiquity Looters
This paper deals with the role of taboos and avoidance rituals as a means of psycho-cultural adaptation to taking personal risks among illicit antiquity looters in the Black Sea region of Turkey. My ethnographic fieldwork showed that antiquity looters indeed cared more about the possibility of being crushed by spiritual creatures than of being caught by law enforcement. Spiritual creatures, namely jinn, are the most unpredictable threats imagined…
Death and Organ Donation Between Four Gates and Forty Posts: Insights From Alevi Faith
Alevi-Bektashi adherents constitute a significant population both in Türkiye and in the diaspora. Within the framework of the erkân (Alevi-Bektashi social norms), cadaveric organ donation is strongly encouraged as a pathway to the donor's eternal salvation, whereas living organ donations are subject to specific regulations. This study, based on in-depth face-to-face and online interviews with 21 ocakzade Alevi religious leaders (dede), investigat…
From the Operating Room to Everyday Life: The Sustained Liminality of Kidney Transplant Recipients
Kidney transplantation offers patients the prospect of a “second life,” yet this renewed existence does not necessarily mark the end of liminality. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in Turkey, this study examines how recipients of cadaveric ( n = 22) and living-related ( n = 26) kidney donations, along with their family caregivers, continue to navigate an unresolved threshold between illness and recovery. Data were collected through in-depth parti…
Organ Donation and Transplantation (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Folklore (3 works) · History (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Organ donation (3 works)