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Volume 6, Issue 20 (6-2018)
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In Iran and the countries influenced by Iranian culture, on the thirteenth day of Farvardin, every year, people leave the house and go on excursion outdoor from morning to night. This day, called Sizdah Bedar, is one of the most important rituals. Nowruz's famous ritual that has no history in ancient literary and historical sources, and the first related documents belong to the time of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. The memories and travel guides of the Qajar era show that the Shah and the royal court as well as the public have officially and widely celebrated the thirteenth day of Farvardin, and that in the ancient Iranian beliefs, the "thirteenth day of July was sinister. According to the words, the thirteenth day of all the Iranian months were sinister. Regarding this historical background on the sinister nature of 13th, Iranian at Qajar era had believed in this day their homes might be destroyed and also the New Year calamities have been destined on this day. To this end, they were going to the plains and gardens to relax and save themselves from the losses of that day. Contemporary scholars have also brought up various guesses and views (at least 14 opinions) about the cause of the “Sizdah Bedar” ceremony among which symbolism of the thirteenth day for the thirteenth millenary in Iranian beliefs –which shows the end of the twelve thousand-year-old universe and the beginning of the final disturbance and destruction- sounds more likely. To do the present research, the authors benefited from a review of many literary and historical references, writings and research of contemporaries with specific precision (in print, language corpora and soft wares) and then on the basis of the evidence obtained from the history of the Sizdah Be Badr discussion and conclusion have been presented.


Volume 7, Issue 26 (6-2019)
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Today, in historical and cultural studies, objects and images are also called sources of information as text- document. They are important not only to supply the information of written sources, but also to provide information enabling writers of historical texts who have not been able to express them. Examining these works and reading commonly used cultural themes can help better understand public opinion and lifestyle. The themes of magic and amulet are derived from the main doctrines and ways of thinking. The common cultural and religious ties that unite them are closely tied to the popular culture of the people. In the context of this study and in order to understand the influence of ideology and religion on the material culture of the Qajar period, the authors have tried to apply different themes to these works by studying the case of armbands to answer the following question: how do Islamic Shi'a notions fit into the apparent structure and patterns of Qajar armbands? Research methodology is descriptive – analytical. In this research, this issue has been addressed in two parts of the position of Iranian -Islamic culture and the formal and cultural annexes of amulets (narratives, codes and decipherments). The result of this study, while demonstrating the direct effect of Shia and Islamic beliefs on Qajar periodical armbands, showed the direct effect of popular beliefs on how these works are used and designed.
 

Volume 7, Issue 27 (9-2019)
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The Iranian folk culture originates from ancient time so that Iran can be considered the origin of ancient rituals and beliefs. Kermānshāh province is one of the regions rich in cultural heritage. Therefore, the beliefs of its inhabitants may well reflect the folk culture of this region. In the same vein, as an important element of folk culture and literature, the crystallization of this rich culture in these deeds is highly important and remarkable. By adopting a descriptive-analytical research methodology, the current research investigated the attributes of folk culture and literature in five deeds of Qājār Era in Kermānshāh Province. The results indicate that these texts are the best indicator to observe people's thoughts during Qājār period and can be clearly seen in the reflections of folk culture and literature. The expressions of professions, instruments, weight and quantity, titles, curse and prayer, measurement and religious rituals are among the material and spiritual elements that have been analyzed, identified and investigated in these deeds.
 

Volume 12, Issue 57 (7-2024)
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Literature has been a full-view mirror of social and economic developments. According to this macro perspective, the culture of work and life and the jobs that people have dealt with in some ways have been reflected in poetry. In fact, one of the written sources that can represent traditional occupations and popular beliefs about them is literature. These jobs were very common in traditional society but now are being forgotten due to the growth of societies and the dominance of industry, and they cannot be found except in museums. In this article, we will examine common occupations in the poems of Yaghma Jandaghi. Yaghma is one of the poets who, due to the diversity of his poems and the content of his works, has paid special attention to public culture and occupations of street and market people, and through their recollections, he has nurtured novel meanings and themes. Various occupations such as blacksmithing, gardening, grocery, sewing, nursing, etc. have been reflected in his poems. The current research was carried out using a descriptive-analytical method. The results of the examination of occupations in Yaghma's poems show that his poetry, while having literary, aesthetic and meaning-making uses, also gives a clear picture of the economic and livelihood foundation of that time. In turn, it can open a new chapter of discussion under the title of work culture in the subcategory of public culture.
 

Volume 13, Issue 1 (9-2021)
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One of the important issues of the Qajar period was the arrival of a large number of European physicians in the geographical area of Iran and their treatment activities. Due to being strangers, these physicians were not very familiar with the social conditions and relations prevailing in this space and could not establish a proper connection with the host society. In this study, based on the main sources of Qajar history and descriptive-analytical method based on historical sociology, the socio-cultural interactions of European physicians with the host society are analyzed based on the concept of "stranger" invented by Georg Simmel. The questions of this research are: How were the mental and practical actions of European physicians in the host social space? What has been the reaction of the host community to them? What effects have stranger-host interactions had on the professional performance of these physicians in the health and treatment process of Iranian society? The findings of this study indicate that European physicians due to their actions due to being strangers to the host social space such as neutrality, having a clear accent and transparency; Freedom from any restrictions, prejudices and prejudices; Disregard for the social, political, etc. categorizations, which often lay in their objectivism, failed to establish the necessary convergence with some of the actors of the host society (the group of traditional sages). Instead, the sages looked at these doctors as strangers and did not accept them into their group for a short time. But another part of the host community, ie patients, has accepted them and as a result, the impact that these doctors have had on the treatment process of Iranian patients has been a positive trend.
 
 

Volume 13, Issue 2 (3-2022)
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The aim of this study is to examine economic power in the Qajar era as part of Michael Mann's quadruple social power approach. Michael Mann distinguishes four sources of power: political, ideological, military and economic. The art of the research is qualitative and its method are Bibliography, Which is carried out with the analytical method of Michael Mann. According to Mann, the four sources of social power are measured using various indicators. The main assumption of the research is that there are four sources of power in the Qajar era. Economic power is one of the most important sources of power in the Qajar era. The four sources of power and consequently the social impact of these sources of power, namely the court, the clergy, the chiefs of the tribes and nomads and the merchants, were in close and constant contact with one another. The results of the research show that the social representatives of economic power, business people, tried to maintain their independence in interaction and confrontation with other representatives of social sources of power such as the court, clerics and tribal and tribal leaders. Such conflicts led to an overlap of social actors, the two sources of economic and ideological power, the merchants and the clergy. The constitutional revolution and the tobacco movement were the end result of an overlap, followed by the collaboration of social agents from two sources of economic and ideological power as opposed to political power.

Safura Borumand,
Volume 29, Issue 3 (7-2022)
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At the beginning of the Victorian Era (1837-1901), although British women’s activities were limited to housekeeping, their restriction in social activities and job choices, the increase in their population, were among the issues that led to the formation of new perspectives on women and their possibility of working outside the home. Meanwhile with the expansion of missionary activity in British colonies, Victorian women gained the opportunity to participate in missionary works beyond their homes. A significant number of them were attached with the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and came to Iran. They faced two challenges for proving their ability in creating a “new self and identity” versus “others”: 1) in Victorian society as a social identity equal to men, 2) in Qajar society for introducing “themselves” as a preacher of “new social identity” to Iranian women. Focusing on the conceptual framework related to the issue of “self, other and identity”, reviewing the surviving reports and documents, this article examines the causes and manner of the process that led to the formation of the “new identity” of these missionary women and their demarcation between “themselves” and the “other”, i.e., patriarchal structure of the Victorian society and the CMS. It also reviews the feedback from their interactions with Iranian women as “other” in shaping their “new self and identity”. The achievements of this article show that the liberal and feminist actions of missionary women in creating a “new self and identity” in their homeland led to an open competition with missionary men in patriarchal structure of the CMS. Furthermore, following the interaction of the CMS women with different strata of Qajar women, their “missionary identity” faded and “their humanitarian self and identity” aspects replaced.
 

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