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CULT – RURALPromotion of a Cultural Area Common to European Rural
Communities
PRISMA Centre for Development Studies
Euracademy Association
Fouli PapageorgiouLouiza KarapidakiAphrodite Sorotou
Co-organisers & associate partners
PRISMA Centre for Development Studies
www.prismanet.gr
Euracademy Associationwww.euracademy.org
Museum of Cretan Ethnologywww.cretanethnologymuseum.
gr
Folklore museum of Komotinialex.eled.duth.gr/laografiko/
mu.htm
Other Greek ethnographic museums are also potential associate partners
Culture
“the totality of the knowledge and practices both intellectual and material of each of the particular groups of a society, and of a society itself as a whole.”
Guillaumin (1988)
• Lifestyles• Beliefs• Ethics and aesthetics• Use of land and its natural
resources• Habits and customs• Architecture• Arts (Fine, applied,
performing)• Songs• Myths• Rituals• Festivities
• Rural areas participate in global culture and keep their distinct character
or
• Rural areas are gradually losing their identities and distinctiveness due to national, global and other pressures
Cultural heritage & sustainable development
Cultural heritage
• Source of identity• Input to contemporary rural
culture
Sustainable development
Resource which:• Brings economic benefits• Capitalises on the lessons
that rural heritage brings to comunities
rural heritage represents a driving force for sustainable development
Background
Rural is:
a stretch of inland or coastal countryside, including small towns and villages, where the main part of the area is used for:
• agriculture, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries,
• economic and cultural activities of country-dwellers (crafts, industry, services, etc),
• non-urban recreation and leisure areas [or natural reserves], other purposes, such as for housing.
Council of Europe
Cultural heritage aspects depend on the type of human activities practised in an area
Greece is rich in rural cultural heritage values
Existence of over 60 ethnographical museums in the country
Gesture and speech: everyday communication in rural areas
• Everyday relations• Trade relations• Gift exchanges• Marriage and baptism expressions and gestures• Dances• Songs• Fairy tales• Body movement • Games
Rural cultural landscapes and water: from the aesthetics to the
function • The rural landscape is a
vast and complex cultural object fashioned by humankind and nature over the centuries.
• Rural landscape and the element of water
• Water has movement, it experiences seasonal changes and affects all living entities
• Water as inspiration and as a source for living
Rural routes: a cultural dimension
• Tendency to approach rural cultural heritage from a a multidimensional perspective
• Choose a specific rural activity that relates to movement from one place to the other:
• stock-breeding• trade• travelling and pilgrimage
• Greek examples: Travelling pottery maker (Crete), resin agriculture (Euboia), fishermen (moving fishermen of Prespa), tradesmen, stock-breeders, woodcutters, hunters, sponge collectors, painters, carriage driver etc