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Volume 1, Issue 3 (5-2016)
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Identifying the probable Damages of importing modernity to Iran on mosques is my main attempt in this article. Mosque in Iranian society has held a high status till now. The role of mosque in strengthening social solidarity and people’s spiritual promotion has been very distinguished. Mosques have been the main stronghold of people in order to protect their religion and culture against alien’s invasion. Yet, penetrating of modernity to mosques through and by audio technology had certain damages in which in this article I attempt to identify some of them.
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Volume 1, Issue 3 (5-2016)
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The article attempts to investigate, through a comparative-analytic study, into the Abrahamic Haj Pilgrimage Narratives of Iranians of Pre and Post- evolutionary Iran. The study tries to take into account the transportational revolution of good and commodity as well as people, to get a better understanding of the socio-cultural developments of these two periods. This article results from a historical study that explored written sources, showing the influence of the spiritual experience of Haj on the worldviews and ritual manners of people who observed Haj pilgrimage. This research aimed to do a historical analysis of experiences of Haj over the course of recorded history among Iranians, in order to answer, how it has evolved and experienced. The main goal of this research is to demonstrate the mutual relationships of two religious elements, including Ramadan and Haj.
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Volume 1, Issue 3 (5-2016)
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In his book, Policies of Changes of Weather in the World, Anthony Giddens sets forth the idea that, today,it should be clear that global changes in weather is similar to other disasters and presents adversity that threatens all life on the earthy. Human intervention and different government interference accompanied invasion of nature and violation and destruction of natural diversity present significant evidence of crisis. The key emergent shape of this intervention is global warming. This crisis has spread to all extents on local, national and international levels. Harrison thinks this crisis is rooted in a style of life as a social habit like food habit that develops without any warning in advance like an acute and deadly illness. Observing the key signs of this crisis, the changes and redefinition of public security on all local, national and international levels is vital and requires immediate action in this respect. This is able to prevent the world from future clashes and conflicts over territorial issues, ethnic competitions and so forth. This is considered important considerations in terms of violence and aggression in the world. This article attempts to illustrate how policies can use social science theories, and will explore the degreeto which this policy is practical and useful in Iran.
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Volume 1, Issue 3 (5-2016)
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Starting with the first Iranian film, A Girl from Lurestan (Dokhtare Lor), a silent film, viewers are faced with notable insight drawn from ethnic cultures and life in Iran. Different directors have attempted to properly present the lives of ethnic groups in Iranian Cinema and furthermore, employ it to enrich and foster their stories, cultural backgrounds, contexts and motifs. The directors of such films, nevertheless, often reproduce typical images or characteristics of these ethnic groups and sometimes their movies act as an agent for spreading a stereotype among pop culture and the public. Some elements such as food, clothing and place are key components that indicate the cultural image of the ethnicity. Some Iranian ethnic groups such as the Gikak, Lor, Turk, and Kurds have been shown more in Iranian Cinema. This article is dedicated to discuss the representation of Kurdish Ethnic cultures in Iran as an Iranian ethnic group whose presence in Iranian cinema has been remarkable in recent decades. This article concentrates on the key elements in the culture of Kurdish Ethnic groups, including clothing, food and place and reviewed the movies that have driven inspiration from this ethnic culture.
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Volume 1, Issue 4 (6-2016)
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Shabih-Xani or better known as Ta’ziyeh is an Iranian intangible cultural heritage. Scholars with different approaches have surveyed Shabih-Xani and categorized it as play, theatre or ritual. Most of these points of view ignored the cultural plurality in applying the definitions of these terms. This research aimed to investigate the mentioned issue under the light of cultural diversity. Therefore, the definitions of drama, ritual and play have been discussed to reach a better understanding of these terms regarding cultural diversities. Considering Schechner’s theory on theatre and other activities relating to it, namely games, plays, sports, dances and music, it has been cleared that Shabih-Xani is an oriental dramatic performance that has been intertwined with ritual and game. In terms of function, however, the approach of Shabih-Xani to ritual can be considered the best among other activities. Furthermore, Shabih-Xani has applied dramatic performing conventions in harmony with Iranian culture to form a unique dramatic system.
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Volume 1, Issue 4 (6-2016)
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Cultural ecology is a knowledge that investigates and analyzes the cultural aspects of human relevancy with their surrounding nature. History indicates that humans continually use their surrounding environment and resources in order to survive, developing and forming his culture and civilization and, through this means, he was able to achieve knowledge and experience that can say courageously that these achievements are a part of the national capital of any tribe. Therefore, Indigenous Ecological knowledge (IEK) in rangeland management and pastoralism is one of the dimensions that is discussed in cultural ecology. Thereby, this research investigated the cultural ecology analysis and indigenous knowledge role in different dimensions of rangeland management and pastoralism in Ghasr-E-Yaghoub region in the north of Fars Province. This research conducted as survey method that used direct observation for producing data, cooperative observation and organized interview methods. This research investigated the different aspects of stakeholders’ culture and indigenous knowledge in rangeland management mechanism among them and states that stakeholders for confronting to hardships of social and economic, continental and also occasionally available resources deficiency, are forced to create a social structure for rangeland utilizing. In this structure the members have different or similar roles that based on partnership and cooperation with each other, manage the livestock for a specified time in rangeland. The total sum of these relations and interactions lead to forming a rich and traditional culture from pastoralism indigenous knowledge that in addition to facilitating of routine activities and correlated to pastoralism is also underlying of village social structures maintain
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Volume 1, Issue 4 (6-2016)
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Folklore contains vast aspects of life such as customs, rituals, religion, art, knowledge and literature that shapes material, behavior and speech traditions of folklore. Culture is a dynamic phenomenon that is constantly changing and it represents a part of an individual and collective identity. The identity in form and in content will be meaningful in the context of social interaction. Mass media often indirectly but pervasively transfers too much information about people to the audience that can shape their everyday life. The media, particularly television, is one of the factors that make it possible to identify the elements of identity. Thus, in modern times, people form identities with pictures and titles that reflect the cultural industry and media. The present research is an attempt to represent folklore factors observed in the I.R.I.B. series in the last three decades. Thus, two sets of three decades (In my shelter (1373) and Rely on the Wind (1391)) have been chosen and with the aid of semiotics have been analyzed. The results show how representations of folklore factors have been changed over time.
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Volume 1, Issue 4 (6-2016)
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In the spring of 2010, a mission lead by myself was dispatched, to archeologically survey and identify the existing ancient sites and Tepes (hills), to Mash’ūreh Strait (Gāvshomār), at a southwestern distance of 60 km from the town of Delfan in Lorestan. The mission managed its investigations in two phases: 1) at the vicinity of Cham-e Zakariyā River located at the rural district of Southern Mirbag, suburbs of town of Delfan, and 2) around Kākā Rezā River in the rural district of Firouzabad located at town of Selseleh through a condensed and exact survey. The result of survey was identification and collection of 72 ancient sites. Among these sites, only one building index was found to belong to the Islamic era, which among the local people is known as the mausoleum of Haji Baktash. The remains of architectural structures known as Haji Baktash is on a Parthian hill, in Qalayi Village District in the Firoozabad of Aleshtar, located in the Lorestan province. The original plan of the mausoleum was built with 20 × 20 ×5 cm square bricks, is circle from inside view and octagon from outside view. We plan to study the recognition of a body to deal with the remaining legible architectural space. While we know Haji Baktash was a Sufi seventh century AH who immigrated to Anatolia from Nishapur and sect Baktashi Order in Turkey was founded and developed by him. Thus was it named because of his mausoleum in Lorestan? Is this connected with the mausoleum of the Ahle Haq Sect in the northern Lorestan? The important questions were proposed by the author based on the available archaeological evidence; the present research is in this area.
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Volume 1, Issue 4 (6-2016)
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Among the key Components of Shahnameh, composed by the grate poet Ferdowsi, there are many textual elements that are tied to inter- textual elements, out of the text. This key features are rooted in reflection and representation of social and cultural contexts and backgrounds of this society. This epresentation mirrors and reflects rituals such as marriage, rite of passage and Initiation, and death. When we return our eyes and direct our attention to the concepts and rituals of death, it makes evident that how a part of construction of this book, is associated with death belief systems which stem from Zoroastrian, Islamic, and Zurvanism roots. Using a descriptiveanalytical methods, this article seeks to investigate relationships between death and the epic poems so this essay concentrates on some stories and narratives of Shahnameh related to death. This approach leads us to awareness of some anthropological knowledge on the topic under discussion. Some results as the achievements of this study, are as follows:
- In this book, three aspects of death come in to view: fear of death, death as a reality, and a philosophical-ethical standpoints on death. These three parts come from pre-Islamic and Islamic notions and their combination.
- Due to the image of death that is influenced by the notions of time and devilish quality and content of death (death as the function of Ahriman)- evident in this book, emergences of death sometimes is related to the Zoroastrian world views.
- In some stories like the story of Siyavoush and Keykhosro, death is connected to the archetype of rebirth that does not come from pre-Islamic and Islamic backgrounds. A dichotomy is present here that embedded in some parts of this book.
- In some parts of this book, such as Rostam and Sohrab’s story, death of Sam, death of Faridoun and Iraj, Death of Esfandiyar and will and testament of Anoushirvan, textual elements that are seen, related to inter/external textual elements including burial rituals that lay foundations of anthropology of oroastrian culture in the pre-Islamic Iran.
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