The Agricultural Marker Stars in Yemeni Folklore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12026993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Varisco (0000-0002-1307-7977, corresponding author), Daniel Martin Varisco |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-119 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Folklore Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0385-2342 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1178453 |
| OpenAlex | W10355429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Yemini farmers refer to a traditional star calendar, to define the seasons and timing of agricultural activities, as the « agricultural markers ». Modern almanachs depict this as a system of twenty-eight distinct star periods, and relate these to the lunar zodiacs, the well-known astronomical model of the twenty-eight lunar stations. This association appears to be relatively recent, since a variety of other systems for the Yemeni « agricultural markers » are recorded in historical texts and ethnographic research. The A. describes how this system is supposed to work and compares the contemporary version with one recorded in a 20th-century Yemeni text
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |