Agha Shah-Bolbol Cave: A Polyphonic Ethnography

Document Type : Research Article

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1 MA Student, Anthropology, University of Tehran, Iran

2 Assistan Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This ethnography is a dialogic ethnography between field and two researchers. Dialogic ethnography or dialogic anthropology was a result of textual revolution in discipline. Textual or interpretive anthropology has been definition of culture as text founded in 1970s and 1980s. Geertzian textual revolution considered and interpreted events and actions as texts. Marcus, Clifford, Rabinow, Crapanzano, and Fischer, as Geertz followers hold that ethnographic moment is the moment of writing culture. Affected by polyphonic ethnography in this essay, we tried organized our experience from the field of Agha Shah-Bolbol. Our focus is on the narratives that produced about Agha Shah-Bolbol cave in the region of Delijan, Markazi Province. By two period of doing fieldwork in the around of Agha Shah-Bolbol cave, we tried to hear the voices of culture and added our voices to these that enabled us conveyed the symphony of this culture to audience. Voices of culture includes various narratives of indigenious people and the voices of researchers: the way Agha Shah-Bolbol narrative and the way Agha Shah-Bolbol sensed.

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Quarterly of Social Studies and Research in Iran
Volume 3, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
January 2014
Pages 61-88

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