Recognition and measurement of components affecting the Sense of Place in the ritual spaces of Mazandaran (Case study: Tekieh the Amol’ Ask tribe)

Mourning rituals such as Ashura have been considered as the most lasting factor in the social unity and collective memory of the people of Shia culture. On the one hand, Tekiehs have led to the identification of places for social interaction and belonging, and as a result, the promotion of a sense of place, dynamism, and permanence in the collective memory of the people. Tekiehs, as a cultural-ritual space, has the potential to help a process in which Shia’s people can develop and maintain a sense of place, belonging, and identity. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to measure and evaluate the effective components of sense of place in Tekiehs. The present study is practical in terms of purpose and survey in terms of method. The statistical population of the study is the residents of Amol city from the Ask tribe, which is composed of an ethnic and kinship structure in three climates of "Larijan mountain", "Amol city" and “plain of Oji Abad village ". 261 of which were randomly selected as the sample population. The KMO index in this study was 0.943, which indicates the adequacy of the samples. Pearson correlation and regression methods have also been used to analyze the samples. The results indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between all components affecting the sense of belonging to the place (physical, active, social and semantic) and the dimensions of the sense of belonging to the place (attachment to place, the identity of a place, dependence on place and commitment to place). There are statistics in the community, most of which are related to "physical components" and "semantic components" with a regression coefficient of 0.408 and 0.273, respectively.