İki Tahıl Ölçüsü Üzerine Sosyomatematik Notlar: Şebinkarahisar Kilesi ve Gödük

Authors : Dursun Ayan

Pages : 75-82

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Publication Date : 2004-12-01

Article Type : Research

Abstract :The kile of Şebinkarahisar and gödük are two units of capacity that  are still used in northern Anatolia. Gödük is  one­sixteenth of the kile of Şebinkarahisar. A gödük of wheat weighs approximately 18 kilograms and one kile equals 288 kilograms. One gödük (18 kg) of grains are used to sow 1 dönüm (approximately 940­1000 m²) of field and one kile (288 kg) of grains are used  for sowing 16 dönüms. Thus kile is used as a land measure as well. A kile equals 4 çeriks, 16 gödüks, 32 yarıms. One gödük equals 2 yarıms or 4 mucurs or 8 çiniks. Gödük, a cylindrical measure of capacity, is  especially in use in the provinces  of Sivas  (districts of Gölova, Akıncılar, Suşehri, Koyulhisar) and  Giresun (districts of Şebinkarahisar, Alucra). A mathematical agreement  for the rationalization of economical life emerges  necessarily within sociological structures  having agriculturally  intensive production. The concept  of sociomathematics  implies  the concretization of human mind and culture with mathematics  in social life. Metric system is  a consensus  accepted universally whereas  local measures  of capacity for cereals  are small­scale  examples. Sexagesimal, duodenary and  decimal systems  based on the numbers  60, 12  and 10  are widespread. The presence of a sedecimal (hexadecimal, 16­based) system for measures  in  Anatolia is  of interest from the  historical and  sociological point  of view. Although examples are already known up to now, this study aims to recall the issue by giving a local example. The use of different weight and measures in different part of the Ottoman  Empire and their changing values with time is a well­known issue in the studies  of Ottoman agricultural history. This study can be regarded as  an attempt  to  exemplify the links between  ethnography, sociology and history by presenting  two measures (kile and gödük) that were and are still locally used in Turkey.
Keywords : Anatolia, ethnosociology, Giresun, gödük, history of agriculture, hexadecimal system, history of science, kile, measure, mentality, Ottoman Empire, Sebinkarahisar, sedecimal system, sociology, sociology of science, sociomathematics, Sivas