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Volume 1, Issue 2 (4-2015)
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This study aims to achieve a semiotic understanding of collective memory of the Iran-Iraq war. For this purpose, samples of images in virtual social networks shared in response to the news of discovery and return of the bodies of more than 175 divers have been analyzed. Visual signs in photographs, cartoons, graphic designs, prints, paintings and posters, in methods of historical pictures and frame-images, give forms and contents to the collective memory of the Iran-Iraq war. To identify signs that represent the past and discern their roles in the narrative patterns of the collective memory of war for today›s society, Peirce and Geertz›s theories have been used. The results show several themes in the narrative patterns of the collective memory of war, which include: the sanctity of patriotic death, contrastive meaning of everyday life and heroic life, sincerity against corruption in the models of action, shift to the body, martyr›s body as a cultural object, and the politicization of the collective memory of war. These themes reflect the occurrence of fundamental changes in the system of representation of war in three decades have passed since the end of war.
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Volume 1, Issue 2 (4-2015)
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In this cross-cultural study, we primarily aim to present research-based evidence to examine the main gender characteristics associated with socialization. Using the symbolic interaction theory and the socialization theory, this cross-cultuural analysis particularly explores the construction and representation of gender identity through educational systems. The fields of this study are two varying cultural athmospheres: New Zealand and Iran. Accordingly, this cross-cultural analysis provides the opportunity to explore whether and how significantly the representation of gender characteristics through educational systems is associated with varying cultural atmospheres. Generally speaking, the results of this cross-cultural analysis indicate two key patterns: on the one hand, these varying cultural atmospheres play crucial role in gender representation. On the other hand, both male hegemony and high value of family tend to remain beyond the influence of the varying cultural atmospheres.
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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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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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One rich subculture in Iran is the pilgrimage, which has been observed throughout the entire country. North Iran is one of the areas where many local shrines with particular rituals come in to view. In Mazandaran Province located in Northern Iran next to the Caspian Sea, one of North Iran’s provinces, some pilgrimage rituals have been held and people gathered there around the year as well as on some particular occasions. Gazu shrine is one of the shrines of this province where the ritual of pilgrimage has been observed from the past time as ritual subjects and trustees of this shrine remember. Some of these rituals take the same form of other holy shrines customs, while others differ partly. This article focuses on the Shrine of Gazu in the given region. It uses ethnography and information gathered from key informants to reconstruct the rituals attached to the shrine.
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