عنوان مقاله [English] Museums and Identity Questions: Visiting the Zabol Museum of Anthropology and the Museum of Southeast Iran in Zahedan

Authors
Mohammad Osman Hosseinbor 1
Tayebeh Kuchekzaee 2
Behrouz Roustakhiz 3
1 Social Sciences Department, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran
2 M. S. of Anthropology. University of Tehran
3 PhD in Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran; Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
For a long time and in different societies, the owners of various identities have used a variety of ways to represent these identities in their lives. By thinking in different cultures, it is possible to preserve, maintain and transfer them in various ways. In the meantime, museums are meaningful places to present cultural identity that act symbolically. Various cultures, influenced by a kind of monochrome maker globalization, have been fallen in a vibrant roam to differentiate between themselves and others. Therefore, and given the importance of the category of culture in Iranian society, this research seeks to address this issue within the framework of the history and literature in the field of anthropology, and specifically the field of anthropology of the museum. Therefore, the present article inspired some concepts of phenomenological approach and by adopting the method of ethnography, is an attempt to understand the role of museums in the relationship between ethnic and national (trans-ethnic) identity with regard to the meaning of the experiences of visitors of museums in the cities of Zabol and Zahedan. The findings are presented in the form of five major themes and a central core. The five main themes are: the acquisition of historical knowledge and knowledge, the strengthening of the ethnic-national attachment, and the strengthening of ethnic-national dignity, the strengthening of self-awareness and ethnic-national self-esteem and ethnic-national aesthetics. The central core to which the entire narrative implies also refers to the production, reproduction and representation of the ethnic-national identity in the museum.

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Cultural Studies & Communication
Volume 14, Issue 53
Winter 2019
Pages 305-321