Space, Kinship and Gender (ص 78)

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Space, Kinship and Gender (ص 78)

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Ee-— Winter movements .
FE--- Sprig movements
e— Summer movements
f==--4 Autumn movements
Village built-up area
Vegetable gardens (hawakir)
Arbor terraces
Valley for cereal plantaions (wadi Sarid)
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Fig. 3.9: Close association between activity/time / space
about mostly during the grain harvest and threshing season, March-
May. The first two months were spent on arbor terraces ploughing
and pruning trees. "In May take your sickle and cut with vigor"
goes the fallaheen saying. During harvest time the fallah spent
consequtive days in the valleys so as to harvest and thresh the
grains. During this season, the fallah also covered the vineyards,
picked the fruit trees on the terraces and went to the vegetable
gardens (hawakir). During the wheat and barley season, June-July,
the same pattern was followed, i.e., spending most the time in the
valley while visiting the arbor terraces. During the grapes and fig
season, August-September, the fallah abandoned both the valley and
the village and almost entirely lived on the terraces so as to keep
up with the hard work of picking figs and grapes. The ta'zib i.e.,
moving out to live in the terrace houses called 'amarah or kaser, was
done on a limited scale in Deir Ghassaneh. Unlike other villages
where the whole family left the village temporarily to live in the
fields, in Deir Ghassaneh only men lived there and only for few
days.
During the festive season of olive picking (mawsim talkit ezatoon),
the end of the agricultural cycle, the fallah accompanied by all his
male relatives, unmarried daughters and elderly women, and sometimes
hired labour from other villages, spent the time moving back and
forth between olive terraces and the village.
Thus, the cyclical agricultural activities gave all members of the
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