خلاصة:
Natural deterioration is only one of the identified threats to historic properties. There is a
broader range of threats including natural and climatic effects and also human activities.
The human acts are not limited to such anti-social behaviors that in behavioral sociology are
known as vandalism; they also include culturally approved acts such as cultural rituals, etc.
that are truly valued by their entire society. Sometimes these cultural acts could directly or
indirectly cause damages to historic properties. This raises an important dilemma vis-à-vis
to the preservation of cultural heritage and its tangible and intangible values: What should
we preserve, the cultural property or the cultural practice? How is it possible to prevent
damages to historic properties, but also to be able to preserve cultural practices that are
essential characters to Cultural Landscape richness? In the preservation of cultural heritage,
and more particularly those subjects related to the cultural landscape, understanding the
integrity of the historic property and its related cultural beliefs support its success and
authenticity.
This paper considers three such kinds of cultural behaviors from the wide variety of Iran’s
cultural geography and analyzes their psychological, social and traditional aspects in order
to examine the possibility of multi-preservation methods for these difficult cases.
ملخص الجهاز:
Vandalism, Cultural landscape, Cultural values, Cultural believes, Preservation Introduction Study of various historic places and visiting different regions across the country of Iran, either if they were the most well-known and perfectly Corresponding author: mohsenkeyhanpoor@yahoo.
It should be noticed that in many cases, such destructive acts are not easily recognizable to be considered in condition assessment studies, as they are completely different from the regular human-caused damages to historic properties.
In particular, research with a focus on anthropological factors should be included in cultural landscape studies, to convey the intense integrity of the cultural acts with preservation of historic properties, which was the method of this study.
In most of the times, the act of such interventions in historic properties appears as a result of public unconscious activities, which is different from the acts of vandalism that attempt to destroy cultural practices/properties.
Like what was defined previously, vandalism is an intentionally planned destruction of public properties (Mohseni Tabrizi, 2004: 14-17), while cultural expressions and practices represent respect and faith to historic properties even if over time this would cause damages.
However, those particular examples of the creation of a memorial adjacent or inside of long-lasting historic properties depict the desire The Scientific Journal of NAZAR research center (Nrc) for Art, Architecture & Urbanism 55 M.
All such acts are cultural expressions and practices which at first might seem very simple or not important, though they are so tightly integrated with people daily life and believes, and should be carefully studied, especially when it’s about historic properties.