مردم شناسي هنر گليم هاي روستايي: تحليل شكل و سبك طرح ها ( روستاي مولان، آذربايجان)

The Anthropology of Art of Rural Rugs: Analysis of Form and Style of Pattern (Molan Village, Azerbaijan)

This article is concerned with the study of pictures and designs of hand-woven rugs in a traditional culture from anthropological perspective. For this study, patterns of one of Iranʹs village, Molan, in Azerbaijan region, have been chosen and their form and style have been analyzed. Folk Arts from ancient times in Northwest of Iran, Azerbaijan, had a sacred aspect for the inhabitants, so much that some of artisan had been in a status of sage and leader of tribes. Therefore, artistic works of Azerbaijan contain material and spiritual extent of culture, so exploring Azerbaijani art will manifest deep dimensions of culture of the region. Anthropology of art is one of the important courses that can discover different layers of cultures which are dependent on the artistic activity and appearance of most of cultural expressions by the artistic action. This research include two methods which are common in the anthropology of art, and combinated by iconographic view: 1) analysis of formal features of artistic works, 2) stylistic analysis in cross-cultural extend. Franz Boas approach especially in the famous work "Primitive Art" has been used and examined for the analysis of form and style and meaning representation in general and for patterns of rugs in case. For formal representation of meaning other kinds of Azerbaijani arts such as rock arts and folk narratives, myths, have been reviewed. Cross-cultural analysis of style contained the comparative study of Sumerian shared, style with the Azerbaijani rug patterns and style.