respective customary activities. On 21 March 2006, the commemoration of Arba'yin for Imam Huseyn, who had died 1,326 years earlier, fell on the first day of the Persian New Year, Nowruz , celebrating the start of 1385. This overlap pitched the mourning
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Mourning at New Year's Day (Nowruz)
Cultural Practice against Ideology
Reinhold L. Loeffler and Erika Friedl
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Introduction
Religious Rituals’ Reflection of Current Social Conditions in the Middle East
Ingvild Flaskerud
at New Year's Day (Nowruz): Cultural Practice against Ideology’, Reinhold L. Loeffler and Erika Friedl discuss how people in a rural village in south-western Iran responded to official directives in 2006 to prioritise Islamic mourning rituals for Imam
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Jun 2022
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An Appraisal of Participant Observation Methodology
Soheila Shahshahani
for all time. This is how rituals are defined (following Hall) to be a process, they are constantly played, moved, and constructed. Finally, the author writes on the feast of Nowruz (the arrival of spring), but it is a pity that he did not have enough
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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The Invisible Inhabitants of a Cultural Limbo
Religion Identities among Igdir Ja'faris
Mehmet Ali Sevgi
and the reading of the Qur'an in the cemetery, however, shows that Shi'ism and Turkish identity are intertwined in the Feast of the Dead. Nowruz is another tradition that has been celebrated for centuries. The arrival of spring is celebrated with
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Every Dog Has Its Day
New Patterns in Pet Keeping in Iran
Anahita Grisoni and Marjan Mashkour
social categories, it is a place to eat and to sleep during recreational picnics ( Sizdehbedar ) at the weekend or during events such as the end of the Iranian New Year ( Nowruz ), thirteen days after the spring equinox (20/21 March). In all cases, part
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- 112–126 (15 total)
The Interaction between Language and Ritual in the Pilgrimage of Shabe-Arus (Wedding Night)
An Anthropological Comprehension of the Mystical and Transnational Role of the Persian Language in Konya, Turkey
Alireza Hassanzadeh and Somayeh Karimi
its mystical context; a language that combines with the national rituals of countries, such as Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, not only in rituals such as Nowruz but also in rituals such as the mystical Wedding Night ritual in Konya, revealing the
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2022
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