چکیده:
Play and Game are considered as the oldest cultural behaviors as the universal elements of human culture in all communities and groups. Gilan province in Iran, especially their villages, has a unique folklore especially its local games and plays. Nevertheless, it is necessary to document and analyze the immense information about the folklore in these villages before it vanishes in the sea of socio-cultural change. The main purpose in this paper is To Anthropological Study of local games and plays with the focus on Fooman town ship in Gilan province. This article is based on quality and tools of data collection is documental, Informal – in depth interviews and participant observations. It is mention in the theoretical framework the present research for its analysis of data, is based on Structural Functionalism theory.
خلاصه ماشینی:
An Anthropological Study of Folk Plays and Games with Focus on Fooman Town in Gilan Province Fakhredin Ahmadi1 Faculty Member of Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran Yaghoub Sharbatian2 Faculty Member of Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran Received 2 May 2017 Revised 21 May 2017 Accepted 18 June 2017 Play and Game are considered as the oldest cultural behaviors as the universal elements of human culture in all communities and groups.
Gilan province in Iran, especially their villages, has a unique folklore especially its local games and plays.
The main purpose in this paper is To Anthropological Study of local games and plays with the focus on Fooman town ship in Gilan province.
anthropology, Gilan province, structural functionalism, local plays, games Introduction Plays and Games are considered as the oldest cultural behaviors as the universal elements of human culture in all communities and groups.
Gilan province in Iran, especially their villages, due to a varied landscape consisting of alteration of mountain ranges, deep valleys and unique folklore especially its local game and play has always been suitable place for local beliefs to continue and remain un- adulterated by virtue of its isolation that inhibits rapid changes.
Although, Iran is very rich regarding the folklore sources Including Games and plays, but many of the traditions had been forgotten and changed due to modernity and structural changes which have taken place quickly in the community.
To understand and analyse of anthropology of folk- local plays and games from the point of functional structuralism theory.