Study of Cultural Anthropology Concepts in M. Moaddabpour’s Roxana

Cultural anthropology, a sub-branch of anthropological studies, prevents beliefs and customs to be forgotten. Folklore is a set of knowledge, beliefs and rituals inherited from generations past and includes customs, fables, legends and styles of clothing. Moaddabpour is one of the contemporary writers who has tried to collect the common people folklore through maintaining it in his writings. This research is an attempt to study the different aspects of public culture and folklore as presented in Moaddabpour’s Roxana. The present research revealed that, nowadays development of technology and its increasing effects have caused great changes in some aspects of the culture, such as people’s speaking styles and negligence of some folkloric customs. Then, anthropologists and authors try to save the folklore and public culture in their societies through maintaining them in their works. The novels of Moaddabpour, as the narrator of people’s real living, include abundantly current beliefs and customs among common people.