پژوهش نامه فرهنگی هرمزگان
سال چهارم شماره 8 (پاییز و زمستان 1393 و بهار و تابستان 1394)

This paper investigates the transformation of «human - tree» and «tree - human» in Hormozgan›s written folk tales andattempts to emphasize the importance of maintaining and studying the folktales. This study also shows how one can find the traces of a nation›s old and mythological beliefs in its folk literature. The present article briefly concludes that in Hormozgan›s folk tales, the «human - tree» & «tree - human» as an ancient belief is of very high frequency in comparison to other transformations, and it usually appears in two forms: -1 the transformation of tree- man and the transformation of «tree- woman». These transformations are sometimes the result of passion, anger, the death of an innocent, and they are sometimes used to deceive the others to achieve the goals and objectives.

The words of any language or dialect - as the material of the language - indicate the culture, the beliefs, and the lifestyle of the people who speak that language. The verbs play an important semantic role in this process. In the dialect of ‹Bandar- Khamir› (a city in Hormozgan province, in seventy kilometers west of Bandar Abbas, in Iran) we can find some simple verbs that have no equivalent in simple form in the official language. The use of these verbs in Bandar Khamiri dialect might be attributed to the frequent use of such meanings in the people›s professionallife that necessitate the use of simple form for these verbs. These verbs are «pazonden» (to prune), «cakiden» (in the air grab), «canonden» (to feed to camel), khasiden (to sting, to chew), «zaponden» (sudden drag), saronden (to shake hands while talking), «koroponden» (crushed metal container), «koropiden» (to crush metal container), «gecarden» (to massage), «mosten» (to sweep, to dredge), «morukhten» (to blindfold), and «harden» (to mill).

The present paper examines the important implications of «The South Flavored by Liva» by BelqaisBehzadi. The female language and the reflections of the native atmosphere of the South of Iran are the most important characteristics of BelqaisBehzadi›spoetry. This study considers the content and the special native and cultural factors of the South, which have a significant impact on the expression of the theme of the poetry and the success of Behzadi›s poetry.

Death, as an undeniable fact,has attracted a great deal of attention in different schools of thought and religions and it has been judgedbased on different views regarding the nature and the reality of human being. Writers, scholars, and poets have been concerned with death throughout the history and they have expressed their concerns about it in prose and poetry. This article attempts to consider HasanKaramiZadeh›s thoughts regardingdeath among Hormozgan›s poets and to analyze the manifestations of death in his poetry. The results show that sadness can be felt in all poems of KaramiZadeh.

Lamazani dialect is the most popular dialect in the central district in Mehran county, which is located in the farnorthern area of BandarLengeh, in the southeast of Bastak and the west of Bandar Khamir. The people in Lamzan and thirteen neighboring villages are the speakers of this dialect. This study examines the phonetic and the morphological features of Lamzani dialect in comparison with the standard Persion language. This article examines and describes the vowelsby using minimal pairs and several morphological examples at the beginning, middle, or end of the word. The results of this study indicate that in addition to the differences in the diphthongs, unlike the standard Persian, which has six monophthongs, this dialect has eleven monophthongs that fall into the three categories: short, longs, and tense.

The study of popular culture through various media like poetry, fiction, music, beliefs, apothegm, and especially social rituals seems to be possible. The recognition and analysis of the traditional rituals pave the way for understanding the masses worldview in any age and country. Rezif dance is one of the old rituals of the coastal people of Hormozgan especially Bandar-Kong, which is one of the important ports in the history of Iran›s maritime. The mentioned ritual has been of particular importance in the celebrations and the festivals throughout several centuries. Based on Emile DurKheim›s sociological theories and through the cultural semiotics methodology, the present paper attempts to describe the types of movements andthe music,and also to analyze the elements and the constituent social functions of this ritual.The results show that the rituals are very important and helpful in forming the collective conscience and maintaining the social solidarity in order to make the society continuea useful and productive life.

Since nowadays fiction is inspired by the life of ordinary people and it addresses the problems, concerns and struggles of this class of the society, it is largely under the influence of the folk culture. Using the library method and the document analysis, the present study attempts to investigate three areas of folk culture: strengthening the culture,transferring the culture, and the children. The relationship among these three issues is examined based on the prominent theoretical discussions and the empirical research in these three areas, particularly in Iran. The results of this study show that Iran has a rich cultural civilization consisting of various and distinctive folklores in the vast geographical zones and this cultural ability has the potential to create necessary motivation for their transfer to children. However, since folklore has a special power in traditional developing societies, sometimes this opportunity turns into a threat that needs planning.

The folkloric beliefs are one of the most essential genres of the nations› folkloric culture that resemble a two-edged sword which can either quickens the process of development in all aspects or act as a brake and impede the development and progress. The folkloric beliefs might have been the outcome of the collective mind of the people (proverbs and adages), a verse of a poem or an anecdote that has been accepted by the masses and the collective mind during the course of the history and has been converted to a parable or a proverb. Ethnic thoughts and beliefs are the cultural memorials, which root in the life style of the people of a region and their ancienthistory. The present study has investigated Hormozgan›s folkloric beliefs in the various spheres. It has also classified such beliefs into two categories:the onesthat are considered to be productive and prolific for the process of development, andthose that are regarded as impeding for the progress and promotion within the culture. The present paper is a briefsummery of the author›s published book about the folkloric beliefs of Hormozgan›s people, which has been compiled and analyzed for five years using a field study method.

The social and cultural effects of tourism show that tourism and traveling influencesthe value system, the behavioral patterns, the social structures, and the lifestyle of the host society and the tourist. As one cannot ignore other modern evolutions because of their negative effects, we should try to control their negative consequences through some preparations and to benefit from their positive effects. The same approach should be taken in case of tourism to identify its positive and negative effects. One of the most important social effects of ecotourism is its influence on the social relations and the relation patterns among people in the host society, which has unfortunately been ignored in the research on the social effects of ecotourism. Therefore, thepresent paper intends to investigate the effect of ecotourism on the social relations of ecotourism sector practitioners in Tabl village. Network analysis method was used to carry out the research and the required data were gathered through questionnaire. The networks were delineated and analyzed using Visone and Net Draw softwares and based on the cutpoints, the out degree centrality, and the centrality of the special vector. The results revealed that the practitioners of ecotourism sector in Tabl village, whoare in relation with the tourists andthere is a possibility for them to disconnect their relations with their community under the effect of other cultures, have conserved their relations with their community so that they trust their families in the highest order and their friends and the local trustworthy people were located in the next order. Although the ecotourism has no influence on the relations among relatives, the village network is not coherent and the relations among people are based on the tribalrelations. Therefore, employing people with the high centrality in the network will be helpful to increase trust and cooperation among them.

Today one of the influential factors in the societies› fundamental freedom is their level of adherence to the press freedom. The world agreements have determined the press freedom as one of the criteria in developing the right of the public surveillance, and have asked the member countries to accept their own commitments. The present paper intends to study the relation between the press freedom and the right of the public surveillance,as well as the effect of censorship on this right. This study, in addition to presenting the definition of the press, evaluates the role of censorship in some country›s constitutional law and analyzes the defects of the press right and the effect of censorship on it in Iran. The present study evaluates the effect of the press freedom on the right of the public surveillance in Hormozgan using a field study. The results show that balance between the right of surveillance on press and the freedom of press leads to much surveillance on the part of the people.