Memory of Mirzakochak Khan in Collective Memory of Guilani people

The current article compares the memory of various generations of Mirzakuchak Khan in Guilan province. This study applies the present-day approach and the theory of social memory frames.  The residents of Fouman, Shaft, Talesh Astara and their sub-regions form the statistical population.  A total of 76 samples were selected based on saturation and the method of theoretical sampling, data collected by fieldwork and investigated by using an unstructured interview approach.  The findings illustrated that generation as a social frame impacts Mirza’s place in forming the collective memory of people in Guilan. The memory of Mirza in the first generation is concrete, scattered or a separated combination of oral narratives of relatives and locals. The second generation recalled Mirza with historical realities, due to use of official media and oral narratives from local communities. The memory of Mirza in the third generation, was represented vaguely and inefficient under the influence of the national media, Movies and TV shows due to the lack of information resources.  Beside issue of generation, religiosity was another effective social frame affecting the collective memory in this research. Many people pointed that founding a religious system was one of the purpose of his uprising