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Fertility is known as a biological phenomenon. The diversity and proliferation of the popular belief suggest the importance of this issue in popular culture discourse. In different periods, the reflection of the hidden aspect of fertility has been disputed with respect to the culture of society in most cases. In this study, it has been tried to identify and study the ceremonies and rituals associated with birth in Bushehr province considering multi - ethnic groups. The characteristics of child sex, sexual preference, infertility solutions, and the mother – child relationship during and after birth and other interactions between women and childbearing are particularly focused. Following other ethnographic studies, the field method was borrowed as the research method, and in order to eliminate the defects and possible shortcomings from the combination of methods, the direct observation and interviews with women and local midwives were to analyze the ethnological structural and normative explanation. Moreover, the religious attitudes and cultural foundations of rites of passage and fertility rituals were investigated based on sympathetic magic theories, the survival of the fittest, rites of passage, Social contagion and stigmatization. The results show that the representation of rituals is necessary in order to know the cultural past of the regions and its structural and normative explanation regarding the development process and the high migration potential of the province.
 

Keywords: Rites of passage, popular beliefs, birth, Van Gennep, Victor Turner, Bushehr

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