Art
farzad feyzi; Behrooz Afkhami; sara sadeghi
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Urban legends and fairytales use symbols and archetypes to bring forth, and describe, individual and collective actions and reactions in a society. Using an approach of both descriptive and comparative nature, the present article uses narrative analysis method to conduct an exploration of two similar ...
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Urban legends and fairytales use symbols and archetypes to bring forth, and describe, individual and collective actions and reactions in a society. Using an approach of both descriptive and comparative nature, the present article uses narrative analysis method to conduct an exploration of two similar legends of Beauty and the Beast, from European culture, and Shāhmār, from Iranian culture. The research question is the following; in the two narratives under study, what is described as the ideal epitome of a woman through the evolutionary course of moving from girlhood to womanhood by means of marriage? To answer this question, using the notion of “transformation” in the ideas of John Hinnells as well as the description of marriage as the “transformation of matrimony” based upon the ideas of Joseph Campbell about the evolutionary journey of mythical heroes, the condition of the heroines of both legends- along their path that leads to transformation of matrimony- was studied and analyzed. The results of the research show that the evolution of the heroine of Beauty and the Beast is based upon going past the state of girlhood to the state of womanhood by means of love and union with a creature which looks like a beast, a creature whose hidden inner beauty is unveiled and revealed after experiencing love, leading to the end of the story. In Shāhmār, however, love and union is created only when human nature of the beast is revealed, as this is the point where the eventual evolution of woman, namely, accepting the role of motherhood, starts; protecting the love and matrimony is thus introduced as the ideal and that which is of prime importance.
Sara Sadeghi; Ardeshir Javanmardzadeh; Saeed Rahimi; Zahra Cheraghi
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One of the most common cultural and social practices among the people of the world is tattooing. One of the functions of a tattoo is to represent individual and social beliefs. This article tries to identify the patterns and motives of Lorestan women by looking at their tattoos. The purpose of this study ...
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One of the most common cultural and social practices among the people of the world is tattooing. One of the functions of a tattoo is to represent individual and social beliefs. This article tries to identify the patterns and motives of Lorestan women by looking at their tattoos. The purpose of this study is to show the main motivation of Lorestan women tattoos. This descriptive-analytical research has tried to achieve common forms in tattoo drawing by collecting library and field information. The importance of addressing this issue is that, on the one hand, the prevalence of tattooing as an act in Iranian society is undeniable, and on the other hand, research on tattooing is more in line with existing sources in Western studies, while this Art, like many other arts, has specific regional and cultural characteristics in each community. The statistical population of Lor women is between 50 and 60 years old who have had tattoos on their body more than 4 times. According to the present study, tattoo designs and their creation on the body, in addition to aesthetic value, also have significant motivations that are rooted in individual, ritual, myths, cultural and historical contexts of the same society.
