July 2017

The effect of inter-ethnic cultural relationships on universalism in Iran

Iran is a multi-ethnic society. The quality and quantity of relationships between ethnic groups can be regarded as one of the crucial aspects of its integration and cohesion. This paper argues that cultural relationships and exchange of ideas and values among various ethnic groups in Iran gradually leads to the formation of universal values, norms and the broadening of an intellectual viewpoint. This paper reports the...

Author(s): Mozhgan Azimi Hashemi, Ali Yousofi and Mohammad Reza Hashemi

July 2017

History of ethnography: Straitening the records

Scholars who hold onto the view that Morgan pioneered formal ethnography and Malinowski systematized participant observation seem to be glossing over significant information on the history of ethnography. It, obviously, does not hold to say that all the efforts before Morgan were amateurish and unsystematized, and therefore brand them pre-ethnology – for there is on record at least one pre-Morgan scholar, Joseph...

Author(s): Chidi Ugwu