An Anthropological Perspective on a Selection of Written Works Focusing on the Written Cultural Materials of Iran (A Case Study of Written Cultural Materials: Marriage Documents)

This is an anthropological qualitative research with a descriptive-analytical method and with the aim of thematic analysis of the coordinates of studies that have focused on marriage documents - an example of written cultural materials in anthropology. So, by presenting a general and descriptive overview of this type of written works, classifying and extracting their characteristics, and then the research capacities of this category of works based on theoretical and methodological components have been evaluated in this research. The findings of this research introduce two categories of works in the field of the above studies, whose coordinates have enriched their research capacities and classified these capacities in four main axes. As a result of the existence of these capacities and, based on the anthropological insight, it is possible to draw a kind of perspective to gain knowledge of the mental structures of writers and researchers in the field of Iranian written cultural materials-documents-marriage.