Field research as village community’s cultural awareness identification tool

The conference paper will deal with possibilities of specific assets and outcomes of field research in a village as an enclosed housing, social and cultural space. It will focus on the role of field research as a tool of identification of cultural awareness of a village. The relationship between research, its outcomes and subsequent reaction of dwellers will be defined as well as question of impact of such research on local identity. The case study will show particular village with developed traditional craft production (already extinct). Apart from realizing (or re-building) local identity, new possibilities of reconstruction of the extinct technology or even particular aspects of historic environment open up here.