Scientific Journal of Pazhuhesh-e Honar

Clothing reflects many factors affecting human cultural identity. Daily and ceremonial clothing styles are considered the most visible manifestations of the identity of nomadic society, and components such as culture, customs, geography, climate, etc. each have an impact on its formation or gradual changes in some way. The goals of this research are the cultural and anthropological analysis of the clothing of Qashqai women of Fars province based on the opinions of Howard Murphy and also the analysis of the aesthetic function and meanings of clothing in nomadic culture. Anthropology examines the art of human social life in the past and present and basically studies "human culture" and how culture adapts to the environment. In fact, anthropology studies existing cultures, especially primitive cultures. The main question of this research is; How does the clothing of women of the Qashqai tribe reflect anthropological culture? And it is a qualitative and descriptive-analytical research and its data was collected by field observation and direct interview method and in the library section with the theoretical framework of anthropology; according to the three semantic, aesthetic and functional perspectives of Howard Murphy, the clothing of the Qashqai tribe women of Fars province has been studied. As a result of the research, it should be said that the hope for life, creating happiness and beautifying the living environment using colors and decorations and glittering fabrics in the aesthetic dimension and also the flow of life in the shadow of the beliefs and beliefs that exist about the colors of clothing and the sanctity of women's four-legged in tribal life and also the place that the type of fabric, color and decorations have in the class level and social status of women in the tribe, in the semantic dimension is Murphy's approach and in the functional dimension it is a complete and suitable covering with the climate, activities and difficult conditions of the nomadic life of the Qashqai tribe women and all its aspects are functional in addition to having beauty and cultural meanings.