Abstract:

The soil is one of the main sources of human life with its many different uses. One of these uses is the fabrication of garbage, which is an ancient tradition. The cementism, which means making covers from the soil for various purposes, is almost as old as the history of humanity. As in the various parts of the world, the Anatolian people have been working for about nine thousand years by combining the four basic elements of the earth, such as soil, air, water and fire, with creativity. While square strawling continues to live in various places of Turkey as a commercial activity, the traditional or primary strawling that expresses square strawling has been performed in Anadolu since the Neolithic period. This kind of stumbling is a state of the main elements of the public culture and an activity located in its center. But the recent changes in the socio-economic and cultural structure have rapidly retarded the traditional sandwich in Anadolu, and today these activities have become only in 16 centers. Therefore, the sustainability of traditional cement, which is one of the important carrier elements of non-specific cultural heritage, has become an important topic. This study is aimed at discussing the fundamental character of the sandwich in the village of Gümüşhane Dölek, one of the most important of the traditional sandwich centers in Anadolu, and how sandwich can be protected in the framework of the principles brought by the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Non-Specific Cultural Heritage (Convention). The data used in the study was first-hand collected by the author with field work. In this context, the land work was carried out in the relevant village in the summer of 2019 and 2020 years with one-month periods, and through profound interviews with the craftsmen and sellers, the history and culture of the crafts has been tried to understand. Through the participating observation path, the stages of straw production have been observed and recorded. The findings obtained were assessed in the context of the Convention on the Protection of Non-Thematic Cultural Heritage. The results of the study show that the way the plant production in the village was done thousands of years ago, it was made by a few simple instruments, untouched, entirely by women, by traditional methods. The everyday life in the village is largely shaped around the plundering activities; it has been seen that there has been a decline in plundering in recent times, especially due to migrations and technological developments, and that the planned modernization efforts with mountainous approaches have failed to result. These efforts in the field of development of strawberries have been found to have failed in such errors as excessive commercialization and distraction from the context. Furthermore, these activities were focused on the material products produced and ignored the knowledge, skills, culture, memory and spaces that produced the material products. These initiatives have been determined to try to normalize Dölek village strawing by the same way as the production in other places, which is also a threat to environmental sustainability. To safeguard and ensure the sustainability of the Dölek village plantation, such as in other countries, this art must be added to the lists related to the Convention and protected by a planning that takes into account the desires and needs of the community and the master who are in heritage with the new paradigm brought by the Convention.