Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (Dec 2019)

The Study of Sadegh Hedayat's Documentary and Story Works from the Point of View of Biological Anthropology based on Interdisciplinary Studies

  • M. Sajedi Rad,
  • S. Naderi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22035/isih.2020.3559.3752
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 83 – 109

Abstract

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Sadegh Hedayat, a contemporary name-writer who achieved fame by presenting a novel way in fiction, relying on biological anthropology to retain his unique content, a collection of essays such as: Myths of Creation" Fathers of Man”, “Turkish Salt”, and “Darkroom” can be counted among them. Biological anthropology is one of the important branches of anthropological knowledge that examines the evolutionary structure of mankind. A few of his works contain some of the ideas of biological anthropology that, with their retrieval, can be found in the heritage of the survival of this knowledge. There are two documentary works that show the sources of guidance in this branch of anthropology. “The human and animal”, and “Benefits of vegetarianism”, which can be inferred from the depth of his studies in this field. The present study intends to study the capacity of these works from the point of view of biological anthropology and the extent of its services to recognize this knowledge in Iran.

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