East Gilan Essay

Local markets functions of East Gilan
Most major cities of Gilan have a permanent market, in addition to daily one. The permanent market productions, generally, are local and regional goods, including weekly market of Rudsar Sunday market. Although some of its professions have been eliminated, including Smithery, Horseshoe Crushing, Coppersmith, Felting, Picot and some handicrafts, due to the development of urbanization and changes in urbanization styles, which are broadly handicrafts of Lahijan and Rudsar mountains including Deylaman and Eshkevar such as Wrapper, Chogha (a kind of Bakhtiari clothes), socks and related carfts. Lahijan, Rudsar and Langrud markets, although, were eastGilan economic bases and moreover Rudsar and Langrud ports economic fund, their activities have been eliminated so that they changed to small markets and only supplier of its habitants’ goods. This market and weekly market

Rural women found, in recent years, remarkable presence in the families, in the term of economy, accordingly, it increased their activities area in selling and supplying local goods in the weekly markets of Gilan. Tonekabon which was a part of Gilan, in the past, had a women bazaar was called “Sheytan Bazaareh”, but it has been obsolesced nowadays. This was considered as one of the largest Tonekabon local markets (Khalatbari Limaki, 1378, p. 194). A notable point about these market was economic activity of women as fruit and vegetables vendors which is albeit social features of Gilan women function. Women, in the past, engaged more in these matters, of course. Because men were engaged in livestock raising and agriculture and as a result women engaged in selling goods. The prominence of women presence in economic activities was not far off earlier Islamic geographers. Hudud al- 'Alam’s obscure author writes: “Gill men’s job was warfare and women’s job agriculture.” (Hudud al- 'Alam, 1340, p.