Tree beekeeping culture | Global Knowledge Systems

Overview

Tree beekeeping culture includes knowledge, skills, practices, traditions, rituals and beliefs connected to wild bees breeding in tree hives or log hives located in forest areas. Tree beekeepers take care of bees in a special way by trying to recreate the primeval living conditions in tree hives without interfering with the natural life cycle of the bees. Tree beekeepers have no goal of intensifying honey production, which is one of the features that differentiates them from beekeepers. Tree beekeeping therefore requires advanced skills and knowledge of traditional methods and tools. Tree beekeepers are lifelong learners: through direct contact with swarms and the natural environment, they constantly acquire new knowledge about the life of the bees and the ecosystem. There are also numerous social practices resulting from the practice as well as culinary and traditional medicine...

This record is imported from the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage public dataset as discovery metadata. ARED has not independently verified community authority, access protocols or local naming beyond the source record.

Community and Authority

Communities: Poland, Belarus
Languages: Not specified in UNESCO dataset
Cultural territories: Poland, Belarus
Countries: Poland, Belarus

How the System Works

Music, Performance and Oral Literature Food, Agriculture and Seasonal Practice Health, Healing and Care Ceremony, Spirituality and Cosmology Ways of Knowing and Knowledge Transmission

Sources and Evidence

Imported from UNESCO DataHub dataset ich001. Field-level provenance is retained in the record metadata.

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage ListsDataset

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Field-Level Provenance

title: UNESCO DataHub field title_en
preferredTitle: UNESCO DataHub field title_fr
summary: UNESCO DataHub field description_en
type: UNESCO DataHub fields type_of_element_en and type_acronym
countries: UNESCO DataHub field countries, ISO codes resolved with ISO-3166 regional metadata
categories: ARED category inference from UNESCO concepts_primary_names, concepts_secondary_names and title
relationships: UNESCO concepts_primary_names, concepts_secondary_names, type fields and World Heritage links
sourceUrl: UNESCO DataHub field http_url_en
rights: UNESCO DataHub dataset metadata license and license_url

Original Source Metadata

uuidedb677fe-416a-4206-83ab-222ca700e7d8

ich_public_ref1573

inscription_year2020

title_enTree beekeeping culture

title_frLa culture apicole dans les arbres

type_of_element_enRepresentative List

type_acronymRL

countriesPL, BY

http_url_enhttps://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/01573

concepts_primary_names

concepts_secondary_namesFamily, Festivals, Food preparation, Fraternity, Lifelong learning, Nonformal education, Rituals, Traditional medicine, Traditional tools, Workshops (teaching method)

main_image_urlhttps://ich.unesco.org/img/photo/thumb/13379-LRG.jpg

main_image_caption_enPiotr Pi?asiewicz, Augustów. The founder of Bractwo Bartne while leziwo climbing the pine tree hive in Bia?owie?a forest, Poland

main_image_copyrightKrzysztof Heyke, Poland, 2015

main_image_authorNot supplied

videoshttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/XXaaLi67sus

images[object Object], [object Object], [object Object]

Why This Record Is Credible

This public record is connected to 1 source and has been labelled Source Supported. ARED separates evidence sources from cultural authority so users can see both provenance and review limits.

Cultural Access

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Relationships

Family Festivals Food preparation Fraternity Lifelong learning Nonformal education Rituals Traditional medicine UNESCO representative list World Heritage connection: Białowieża Forest

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