seyed mohammad chavoshi; jalaledin rafifar
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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 ...
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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.
sayyed Mohammad Chavoshi; jalaledin rafifar
Abstract
Gut, The Traditional Settlement in Sangesari clans in summer posture The aim of this article is not only to describe the material, technological and structural characteristics of sangesari tent but also to analyze its different spaces ecoculturally at the basis of an qualitative-field study in ethnographic ...
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Gut, The Traditional Settlement in Sangesari clans in summer posture The aim of this article is not only to describe the material, technological and structural characteristics of sangesari tent but also to analyze its different spaces ecoculturally at the basis of an qualitative-field study in ethnographic approach that is directed on nine sangesari nomadic pastoral clans who are still living in traditional manner. Our fields were camping period postures of the clans and beyond available documents the data were gathered via some ethnographic techniques such as fields three month attendance, simple direct observation, participatory observation and individual, group, open and semi structural interviews. Althought multioriented theoretically, this study concentrates mainly on environment and techniques as the most contributive factors in shaping cultures. thematically The findings include a fine description of material structure of tent, traditional techniques for construing the woolen cover of tent and ethnographical analysis of inner and surrounding different spaces of tent in relation to physical and cultural environments. Adding analytical cultural accounts to descriptional ones is an advantage of this study over the previous pure desciptional studies by other invistigators. The most important result of this study is that the technologies related to structing, settling and space dividing in inside and outsidesangesari tent are in a meaningful relationship to ecological characteristics and also to other cultural elements such as power, subsistency, family, labour division and kinship.
