seyed mohammad chavoshi; jalaledin rafifar
Abstract
Independency, adaptation to ecological environment and rational use of its elements are the most important historical characteristics of traditional forms of life. Savage plants are of these elements that have always had a lot useful functions in local traditional medicines. This ethnographical field ...
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Independency, adaptation to ecological environment and rational use of its elements are the most important historical characteristics of traditional forms of life. Savage plants are of these elements that have always had a lot useful functions in local traditional medicines. This ethnographical field work has been done in the field of medical anthropology and have focused on face to face and non face to face individual interview as well as documents for data gathering. The goal is to Describe and analyse the sangesari traditional dentistry on the basis of authentic participants narratives and then comparing them to objective aspects of modern dentistry. Findings showed that, traditional rationality of sangesari dentistry while facing to oral and dental illnesses and its consideration to the subjective aspects rely mostly upon body natural forbearance, maximom adaptation to natural environment, use of botanical elements of natural environment, least body manipulation and taking the ill person to a wholistic integration with his surrounding cultural and natural environments. Regarding to increasing process of medicalization in modern societies, attention to endogenous knowledges, techniques and approaches may be instructive in decreasing the side effects of modern societies medicalization.
حسین میرزائی
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Since its inception, anthropology has paid special attention to health, hygiene, disease, treatment and medical affairs, and has devoted a detailed field of anthropology to this matter. This article seeks to examine the mechanisms of traditional prevention and treatment among immigrants and its effects ...
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Since its inception, anthropology has paid special attention to health, hygiene, disease, treatment and medical affairs, and has devoted a detailed field of anthropology to this matter. This article seeks to examine the mechanisms of traditional prevention and treatment among immigrants and its effects on the modern Iranian medical system. Using the ethnographic method for data collection: the use of documentary studies, deep semi-structured interviews and participant observation and also personal notes on the research ground of the Qa'im Qom Township , the researcher has been able to collect and analyze the first handed data. The data of this research are mainly collected in the summer of 1397 and the sampling is based on theoretical requirements of the work and purposefully formulated. It initially deals with common diseases among migrants, and then immigrants will encounter these medical affairs based on their traditional and cultural beliefs. Preventive and traditional treatments among Afghan immigrants in Iran are more than modern treatments on the scene of their everyday lives.
