Agrarian rituals giving way to Romantic motifs

Sacred natural sites in Estonia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12637101
AutoresOtt Heinapuu (0009-0005-4527-3859, University of Tartu, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume44
Fascículo1/2
Páginas164-185
Data de publicação2016-07-05
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSign Systems Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1406-4243 • E-ISSN: 1736-7409
EditoraUniversity of Tartu (PUBLISHER • EE)
DOI10.12697/sss.2016.44.1-2.10
OpenAlexW2470380225
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas9

Semiotic mechanisms involving sacred natural sites – or areas of land or water with special spiritual significance – that have been focal points in agrarian vernacular religion have been transformed in modern Estonian culture. Some sites have accrued new significance as national monuments or tourist attractions and the dominant way of conceptualizing these sites has changed.Sacred natural sites should not be presumed to represent pristine nature. Rather, they are products of complex culture-nature interactions as they have been formed in the course of traditional land management as well as different semiotic practices, including ritual and conservationist ones. The existence of sites encompassed by the term defies and blurs the rigid distinction between nature and culture.Individual sacred natural sites and categories of such sites can act as signifiers for a variety of different signifieds concurrently, acting as confluences of different sign systems and thus exemplifying the creolization of these systems as well as bringing about the hybridization of different landscape traditions in certain loci.Estonian literary culture has adopted motifs and narratives that define sacred natural sites more readily from other literary traditions than from the Estonian vernacular tradition; in turn, the vernacular tradition has also adopted and assimilated literary Romantic motifs

Aesthetics · Agrarian society · Archaeology · Art · Estonian · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Natural (archaeology · Romance · Semiotics · Sign (mathematics · Sociology · Vernacular · Vernacular culture · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces