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Volume 1, Issue 2 (4-2015)
Abstract
Contemporary interest to ethnicity and ethnical processes relate to historical changes and the process of ethnic identity that partly affected by different factors. The ethnicity has concept with a dynamic positioning of the contacts variable, conflict and competition in and creates a reanalysis from dynamic current in itself. In Iran, the ethnic groups in terms of social and political transformation have formed at a later date the constitutional. These changes Often erosed the tribal structure and lifestyle and eliminate many customs and cultural elements was that there were signs of Illinois. The important issue is that how it managed to maintain ethnic and tribal restoration and revitalization demand will continue. It seems to be a strategy of ethnic people and social actors within an organization to maintain. Ethnic identity gets important moment which is influenced by threats. Mechanisms of tribal demarcations in contemporary Iran with peripheral factors which there are in modern history formed group dynamic that under the influence of change in migration,
changes in population, industrialization and economic changes, integration in a larger political system , urbanization and variety of groups and nature of confrontations leads to ethnicity.
Identifying the demarcations of tribal and the strategy of group
dynamics can be in the form of the process of the transformation
of the traditional social structure to modern social organization.
Qashqai today can be considered a community that use from
its ethnic strategy for continuity. And it seems this is just the
beginning of this continuity toward getting ethnic. This article
tries to review process from the tribal people of Qashqai to
ethnicity.
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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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