How Landscapes Remember
This paper considers the possibility that as subject or agent, the landscape might have the potential to contain, store or transmit memories of their past, which are engaged experientially as uncanny. In a simple sense it asks why there are some landscapes - or landscape features - that are regarded...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2020]
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Material religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 16, Issue: 4, Pages: 432-451 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Borg in-Nadur
/ Landscape
/ Memory
/ Sanctuary
/ Goddess
/ Cult
/ Pre- and early history
/ Neopaganism
/ Catholicism
/ Marian devotion
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| IxTheo Classification: | AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements BD Ancient European religions KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Landscape
B Memory B Religion B Palimpsest B uncanny |
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| Summary: | This paper considers the possibility that as subject or agent, the landscape might have the potential to contain, store or transmit memories of their past, which are engaged experientially as uncanny. In a simple sense it asks why there are some landscapes - or landscape features - that are regarded as spiritually animated by different social groups, at different times. The paper focuses on the Neolithic temple site of Borġ-in-Nadur, in Southern Malta, which as well as having been a site of prehistoric ritual activity has more recently been the site of a significant devotion to the Virgin Mary, who graced the site with regular apparitions, and a focus for national and transnational Goddess pilgrimage. The paper suggests that sites such as Borġ-in-Nadur can be seen as palimpsest landscapes, in which memory is layered such that experiential engagements with them draw the past in to the present, and forwards into the future. The paper examines the intertwining of prehistoric, Catholic and Neo-pagan engagements with Borġ-in-Nadur, extending Pierre Nora’s concept of lieux de memoire (sites of memory) to encompass the milieux de memoire, or memorial environments, which are themselves also context of, and for, the uncanny. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2020.1794580 |