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Volume 1, Issue 3 (5-2016)
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Local initiatives have been defined as specific collective activities without external support or incentives in order to control either ground or surface waters. On the other hand, one of the most important management approaches in managing water resources is an approach that emphasizes on creating capacity and institutionalization of local communities for participatory management of water resources. Social structures of water resources accounts for one of the aspects of indigenous knowledge and in the management of water resources, it is necessary to analyze social structures associated with it in addition to assessment of the indigenous knowledge. This paper aims to analyze indigenous knowledge in social organization of agricultural production and irrigation system in Rouzkin village, Sarduiyeh County - Jiroft city. In this study, based on anthropological methods and qualitative approaches, including direct and participant observation of the researcher and organized interviews with 32 informed informants (farmers) were used. In Roozkin Village, a certain social structure governs on the management of water resources in the region dating back more than 100 years. Cooperation in water resources management is considered as fundamental principle in this village and the social roles of Arbab and Zaim are among social initiatives of this village in management of water resources. In this village, 10 associations or local groups have been formed for managing water resources and each group is composed of Arbab and Zaim. Generally, it can be concluded that, over time, in addition to the sustainability of local traditions in water resources management, social and cultural stability have been improved with decreased social conflicts among local stakeholders in the rigion.
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Volume 1, Issue 3 (5-2016)
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Nomads’ indigenous knowledge consists of a bright and accurate observations on herbs, plants, animals, weather, soil, pests as well as the classification systems that is compatible with local conditions. According to the researchers and scholars of the field, due to the long-life and long term existence with this kind of knowledge, it enjoys accuracy and capability of prediction. In spite of rare combination of indigenous knowledge with superstition, nconfirmed religious beliefs, and fear on unknown entities and issues, in overall it has a high value and status. Tendency for this kind of researches on indigenous knowledge, comes back to its hidden capabilities and at the same time, its particular applications and usages. This research aims to know and gather indigenous knowledge among Boyer Ahmad Nomads in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad Province. In this way, as the first step, researches employed a range of structured methods and technics of data gathering and unstructured methods, such as meetings and open interviews with local people. Questions on the ways of protection and usage of natural resources are employed in the interviews. The field data that gathered in this research, uncovers that how the people under this study, during the course of time, have given some names to the herbals and plants domesticated in this area, that are in conformity with their morphologic features and traits, ecological needs, smell, taste and the place of growth. On the other hand, the people of the given area on general and the elderly of this region in particular, are aware of the family of herbs and plants and despite the lack of academic and formal knowledge; they are able to categorize these herbs and plants in a correct way. One of the other key contributes that these nomads have, is their belief systems about the protection of those herbs and plants grown in the region. One of the Findings and results of this study makes evident that folk ethno botany is an experience and partly applied oriented science (knowledge). People under study realize every herb and plant’s features and applications and know how to classify them. Even more, they are able to draw compressions between qualities and features of herbs and plants that belong to a same group.
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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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