Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2plfb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T15:23:11.573Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Craft Knowledge as an Intangible Cultural Property: A Case Study of Samarkand Tiles and Traditional Potters in Uzbekistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Pamela B. Vandiver
Pamela B. Vandiver*
Affiliation:
Professor and Co-Director, Program in Heritage Conservation Science, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
Get access

Abstract

Reverse engineering past craft technologies involves using the basics of materials science and engineering to a new end: their preservation and continuation. Examples are presented of the glazed tile technologies of Samarkand, Bukhara and other Silk Route cities of Uzbekistan that date from the thirteenth century A.D. but that continue to the present. The UNESCO charter for the preservation of Intangible Cultural Properties has enlightened the goals and results of the research and has linked together archaeological materials research and conservation science in an exciting new partnership.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 852 , 2004 , OO7.1
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1. UNESCO Section of Intangible Heritage and Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Guidelines for the Establishment of Living Human Treasure Systems, UNESCO, Paris, 2002 and 2004.Google Scholar
2. UNESCO, Convention for World Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection, Burra, Australia, 1975, UNESCO, Paris 1975.Google Scholar
3. UNESCO, Convention for World Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection, Burra, Australia, 1975, p. 30.Google Scholar
4. Amery, C., Vanishing Histories: 100 Endangered Sites from World Monuments Watch, H.N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2001.Google Scholar
5. Rakhimov, A., The Rakhimov Museum, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 2000.Google Scholar
6. Brill, R., Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses, 2 vols., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1999.Google Scholar
7. Wulff, Hans, The Traditional Crafts of Persia, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1966. pp. 160–161.Google Scholar
8. Rye, O.S. and Evans, C., Traditional Pottery Techniques of Pakistan, Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 21, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1976.Google Scholar
9. Matson, Frederick, personal communication, 2000.Google Scholar
10. Evans, and Rye, , op. cit., Appendix 3, pp. 182–183.Google Scholar
11. Kingery, W.D. and Vandiver, P.B., Ceramic Masterpieces, Free Press, New York, 1986.Google Scholar
12. Allan, J. W., “Abu'l-Qasim's Treatise on Ceramics,” Iran, 11 (1973) pp. 111–120.Google Scholar
13. UNESCO Tashkent Office, Blue of Samarkand: International Symposium on Revitalization of Traditional Ceramic Techniques in Central Asia, Proceedings, 6–8 June 2000, pp. 103–128.Google Scholar
14. Rakhimov, M.K., Decorative Ceramics of Uzbekistan, 1961, and Architectural Ceramics of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, 1968.Google Scholar
15. Barry, Michael, Faiences d'Azur, Imprimerie Nationale Editions, Paris, 1995.Google Scholar
16. Piccolpasso, Cipriano, tr. by Lightbown, R. and Caiger-Smith, A., Three Books of the Potter's Art, 2 vols., Scolar Press, 1980.Google Scholar
17. Levin, E.M., et al., Phase Diagrams for Ceramists, vol. 1, 1964, pp. 174–175 Google Scholar
18. Caiger-Smith, A., Tin-Glaze Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World, Faber and Faber, London, 1973, pp. 204ff.Google Scholar
19. Golombek, L., Mason, R.B. and Bailey, G.A., Tamerlane's Tableware, Mazda and Royal Ontario Museum, 1996.Google Scholar
20. Yoshida, M., In Search of Persian Pottery, Weatherhill, New York, 1972.Google Scholar