Analysis of indigenous knowledge and economic evaluation In Asbads (case study: Nashtifan, Khaf)

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Department for reclamation of arid and mountainous regions

10.22059/ijar.2024.371021.459852

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Purpose: Cultural ecology is a science that analyzes the cultural aspects of the human relationship with the surrounding nature. Therefore, one of the aspects discussed in cultural ecology is local ecological knowledge. In this research, an attempt was made to identify and analyze the local ecological knowledge of Nishtifan Asbads in the vicinity of Khaf city, Razavi Khorasan province.
Methodology: In order to achieve the purpose of the research, the information needed for the research has been collected using the direct and participatory observation of the researcher and in-depth and targeted interviews with 12 informed millers and rishisfidans. The present research is based on anthropological methods and in the framework of a qualitative approach Grounded theory was used. Data analysis was done according to Glazer's instructions and in three stages of open, central, and selective coding with the help of MAXQDA software. The number of 73 open codes and general concepts were identified, which were classified into 4 main categories. Finally, the findings were classified in 4 levels: local terms and names, system performance and methods and tools, social institutions and cooperation mechanisms, custom and belief, tradition and laws as basic categories in selective codes. The findings of the research identified the local knowledge levels of Nashtifan asbads as a central phenomenon.
Findings: The results indicate that the local knowledge of the Asbads in four dimensions includes these things: in the first dimension, local knowledge and ecosystem performance, including the 120-day wind blowing parallel to the harvest season, the continuity and high speed of the wind in the region, the lack of resources Powerful water, the height of the village compared to the neighboring areas, the geographical situation of Nishtifan, the strategic location of Nishtifan, the free energy, the needs of the surrounding villages, the absence of mountains in the direction of the wind. In the second dimension, the method, tools and system performance included the point that most of the materials used in the tools and structure of the Asbad structure are organic materials and are compatible with the climate. Stone, wood and iron are the three main components of the building materials of Nashtifan. In the third dimension, social institutions and cooperation mechanisms showed that the traditional society of Nashtifan depended to a large extent on help and various types of help including self-help, co-help and other help were established in the relations between Asiban and Ghanim. And finally, in the fourth dimension, the belief, custom, tradition and laws expressing the privacy of the asbads, their construction outside the residential area, placing them in the form of a complex, allocating the open space of the cemetery behind it, building the asbad on the hill without foundation, design Behind the asbad towards the wind was the failure to build the asbad separately and placing them on the highest area of the village. Therefore, the results showed that it was possible to know the different aspects of the local knowledge of the Nishtifan Asbads. The local knowledge of the Nishtifan Asbads includes those factors that have caused a significant increase in productivity in the region and in accordance with the climatic and cultural conditions of the local people

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Iranian Journal of Anthropological Research
Volume 13, Issue 2 - Serial Number 25
Indexing Databases
March 2024
Pages 185-218

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