Lesní řemesla v raném novověku: koncept

Title:

Lesní řemesla v raném novověku: koncept
Forest crafts and industries in the early modern period: a concept

Creator:

Woitsch, Jiří

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:afd5a4b6-c1ca-11ea-91a2-001b21187a68
uuid:afd5a4b6-c1ca-11ea-91a2-001b21187a68

Subject:

forest products, forest exploitation, environmental history, traditional subsistence, charcoal, potash, tar, D901, HD, HC, HT, and SD

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

electronic

Description:

The text delineates and characterizes, on the basis of the study of domestic as well as foreign literature and primary sources, the groups of crafts and industries (for example, charcoal making, tar making, potash making) that are altogether called forest crafts. Forest crafts are then theoretically conceived as specialized exploitative and subsistence strategies of the Early Modern Era that within the frame of the so called traditional culture played an extraordinarily important role in local and regional contexts. Together with agriculture, hunting and gathering that in the Early Modern Era took place in woods, the forest crafts belong to the traditional systems of the exploitation of natural resources. This system of activities, through which the society of the time in an important way influenced its environment and supplemented its subsistence resources was crucial for the everyday life of the people living close to forests, but up to the beginning of modern forms of forest management constituted an inherent part of exploitation of the forests by their owners. Forest crafts bear several basic characteristics. At the first place, they are almost absolutely tied to the woods, with respect to materials as well as the workspace. The basic characteristics of forest crafts is technological (the use of chemical procedures for decomposing wood during production). The third and last basic feature of the forest crafts is tied to the craftsmen themselves, the bearers of relevant knowledge and skills, who could and did form specific social and economic structures, conditioned also by religious and linguistic divergences.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

337 and 362

Source:

Český lid | 2010 Volume:97 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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