Технология – локална специфика – колективна памет
Technology – Local Specificity – Collective Memory

Summary/Abstract: Technology bears the characteristics of facts with long-term period and connects deeply to the natural resources, especially in the cases of traditional societies. It plays the role of an intermediary between man and nature in the process of adaptation and in the construction of the environment. Apart from the combination of concrete recipes, tools and operational order, it comprises all human activities in a coherent system of knowledge and experience. The aim of the article is to present the place of technology in the socio-cultural net, considering man’s relationship with the natural environment. An attempt is made to connect technology to the mechanism, by which the culture of the population from a certain local territory is constructed, and to the collective memory. The example from the Rhodope Mountains within the frames of traditional culture makes possible to outline the mutual correlation between the social structure, the craft production and the transmission of technological skills. Every individual may enter and present himself as a member of different configurations, according to his competences and may express his identity and social position, participating actively in the net of interactions. The knowledge of the natural environment and of the details in the lay, as well as the emotional attachment and evaluation of the landscape make the mountain a place of group existence and a territorial support of collective memory. The technological choice is conditioned by the natural resources and at the same time it conforms to the rules of cultural tradition. These peculiarities help the people to perceive technology as cultural heritage, expressing their identity with a community and a territory.

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