soheila yousofvand; hossein barani; mojgansadat azimi; Hamid Niknahad; Abolfazl Sharifiyan
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The main question in this study is how herders perceive plants in saline and alkaline rangelands and the relation between water, soil and plants. Data collection was done using field walks and semi-structured interviews with herders in Incheh Borun rangeland, Aq Qala county at Golestan province, Iran. ...
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The main question in this study is how herders perceive plants in saline and alkaline rangelands and the relation between water, soil and plants. Data collection was done using field walks and semi-structured interviews with herders in Incheh Borun rangeland, Aq Qala county at Golestan province, Iran. Herders mentioned 38 plant species with local names. Traditional knowledge of herders showed that land in Turkmen Sahra is classified into two categories of sour and sweet and ocassionally healthy-unhealthy or good-bad are used instead to describe land. Herders also described seven categories for soil including Shishei (glassy), Shor (sour), Martoob (wet), Naor (small basins), Tappeh (hill), Ghermez (red) and Siah (black) where specific plants grow in each category. The result of this study showed that Turkmen herders carry rich knowledge regarding the description of plants and habitats. The innovation of this study was using Turkmen herders’ traditional knowledge in identification of plants, soil categories and their characteristics which is done for the first time in the region. It is recommended that policymaking in natural resources management of Iran apply buttom-up planning and decision-making in order to use traditional ecological knowledge of local communities.
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.
Asghar Asgari Khaneghah; Atiyeh Azarshab; Behrouz Roustakhiz
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The present paper studies the local and traditional food system of Baloch residents in Damen. The purpose of this study is to describe the food system of these people, determine and evaluate its constitutive elements and mechanisms existing in this traditional food system. The present study ...
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The present paper studies the local and traditional food system of Baloch residents in Damen. The purpose of this study is to describe the food system of these people, determine and evaluate its constitutive elements and mechanisms existing in this traditional food system. The present study has been carried out using the qualitative method of ethnography and in it the techniques such as interviews, observation and participatory observation have been used. Our study in this traditional system represents a significant impact on the natural environment of residents, as well as the involvement of cultural and social factors in shaping a native food system in this region. In fact, in this close relationship between food and natural, cultural, social and economic factors, a set of concepts is constantly produced and reproduced, which eventually led to the identification of local cuisine and village residents. In general, by examining the whole mentioned factors, some kind of food culture has become prominent among the people of the village, which has been the basis for identifying and distinguishing this people from other parts.
