Quarterly Scientific-Research Goljaam

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The art of weaving in the territory of Iran is a part of the cultural identity of it`s people. The traditional handicrafts of Sistan and Baluchestan are also considered as an important aspect of this identity. Apart from design and color, many other dimensions of carpet production in this region can be considered as their cultural-religious characteristics. Since the study of the semantic dimensions of an artwork in terms of its creator is much more recognizable,
the present study aims to identify the unknown aspects of the indigenous culture and beliefs of the producers of these crafts by visiting the case study, and it also tries to answer this question that what is the correlation between indigenous rugs of Sistan and Baluchestan and their creators’ cultural traits and religious values.
This research has conducted direct observation and interviews with the natives with the approach of art anthropology and the methodology of ethnography in the region, and then through data coding in three levels of open, axial, and selective coding has attempted to classify them.
The results show that elements comprising the carpets in the Sistan and Baluchestan region, from their initial stages to the end, have wide semantic dimensions so that even the most trivial of them have deep roots in the culture and beliefs of its natives. Specific rituals for weaving, belief in sore eyes, composing special poems during weaving, washing ceremonies, etc. are a part of this elements. In this province, apart from its practical aspects, carpet is considered as a sacred commodity, and although there are obvious cultural differences among the people of Sistan and Baluchestan, the similarity of some beliefs regarding carpets shows the unity of the primitive roots of carpet weaving among the two main groups of inhabitants in this region.

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Most of the obstacles to development as well as the decrease in the production and export of handwoven carpets in the economic dimension are attributed to factors such as lack of marketing, exchange rate instability, international sanctions, wages and cost of production raw materials, and lack of government support. In this research, while accepting these factors in handwoven carpets and their significant effects, the very important issue of the functioning of organizations based on the economic-institutional approach has been addressed in this field. The purpose of this research is to investigate the functioning of organizations based on the theory of Douglas C. North, the economist of institutionalism, in the hand-woven carpet, is the period of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Collecting materials using library method (documents) and collecting data using in-depth interview method and then using qualitative analysis method with a thematic approach and trying to identify the components, especially influential institutions, and then analyze them. . Also, theoretical saturation has been used to measure the number of interviewsAnd the interviews continued until a new idea was not discovered. The interviewed samples were compiled based on the necessary expertise and the questions were compiled accordingly, which were coded, categorized, and analyzed using maxQDA software, which yielded significant results. Has been achieved. The investigations of this research show; One of the important institutional challenges is the absence of a powerful civil society, and the inactivity of the organizations, A: increases the cost of exchange (the lack of national cohesion of handwoven carpet guilds and :union:s to solve their problems). B: It leaves the rights of different sections of the society, which are realized based on bargaining, to political groups or the wishes of politicians. A: In an open access society, access to productive economic rent is for everyone and not only Faradistan, which is the important need for legal equality and freedom and independence of independent organizations and organizations, and if this powerful civil society does not exist Open access will not be possible.