02025nas a2200265   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653002400044653001100068653004400079653004300123653001800166100002200184700001600206700001800222700001500240700002000255245012900275856015300404300001200557490000700569520116300576022002001739       2011                            d10aintangible heritage10acrafts10acraft-related institutions and policies10asustainable heritage-based livelihoods10atacit knowing1 aPriit-Kalev Parts1 aMadis Rennu1 aLiisi Jaeaets1 aAve Matsin1 aJoosep Metslang00aDeveloping sustainable heritage-based livelihoods: an initial study of artisans and their crafts in Viljandi County, Estonia  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79961090123&doi=10.1080%2f13527258.2011.589199&partnerID=40&md5=88be909aada8a749a665ecd7bc7c47c8  a401-4250 v173 aThis paper examines the role of traditional woodworking and building crafts as a local resource in a country in transition from socialism to a market-based economy. The authors use an applied anthropological approach to integrate the preservation of intangible heritage (in the form of traditional crafts) and sustainable heritage-based livelihoods into a contemporary institutional framework. The paper starts with a theoretical discussion of skills as a form of tacit knowledge, a mode of knowing that does not easily submit to verbal explanation and transfer. The authors then discuss the methodology, purposes, procedures and precedents of collecting information about artisans and their skills. Relying on fieldwork data collected in Viljandi County, Estonia in the summer of 2008, the authors sketch an overview of relations between artisans and the communities they live in. The paper also examines several related phenomena such as economic sustainability of the crafts, intergenerational transmission of skills, changes in the relationship between the artisan and the customer, and relevant implications for crafts-related institutions and policies.  a13527258 (ISSN)