Constructing Sacred Sites as a Form of Collective Memory

The Sacrificial Stone on Toomemägi Hill in Tartu

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6133944
AutoresOtt Heinapuu (0009-0005-4527-3859, Tallinn University, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume7
Páginas78-113
Data de publicação2024-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoYearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2613-7852 • E-ISSN: 2613-7844
EditoraEstonian Literary Museum Scholarly Press (PUBLISHER • EE)
DOI10.7592/ybbs7.04
OpenAlexW4400687533
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas9

Sacred natural sites retained their relevance in Estonian culture during and after the shift from mainly oral to mainly literary culture. However, the framework for conceptualising sacred natural sites has changed. Premodern sites have acquired new meanings and functions (notably those associated with national identity) and new sites have been taken into use. The article will present a typology describing the different ways of conceptualising the sacred natural sites that is current in Estonian culture and will offer a case study of a sacred site with a pivotal role in Estonian national identity, the sacrificial stone on Toomemägi hill in the city of Tartu

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Collective memory · Estonian · Geography · Identity (music · Linguistics · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Relevance (law · Sociology · Theology · Typology · Anthropology · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Urban Development and Cultural Heritage