Original scientific paper

Wayside Shrines and Chapels of Pirovac: Places of Interaction, Memory and Identification

Marijana Belaj orcid.org/0000-0002-7231-7811 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Ivana Lucica 3, Zagreb, Croatia
Sandra Urem orcid.org/0000-0002-1712-3934 ; University of Zadar, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, 23000 Zadar, Dr. Franje Tuđmana 24i, Croatia

Abstract

By trying to overcome the possible limitations on their form or religious aspects, the article analyzes wayside shrines and chapels as ways of inhabiting and symbolizing space, as places of social interaction and as monuments, i.e. places which preserve and generate memories on the events meaningful for the community which erected them. Even though they are not monumental in form or erected in order to preserve a memory of some major event, but rather through initiative of certain individuals governed by religious motifs, the research data have shown that they embody the ideas the community has of itself which, in certain historical periods, surpass the frameworks of local space and time and reflect the processes of supra-local identification.

Keywords

chapel; wayside shrine; symbolization of space; identity of a community; memory; monument; Pirovac

Hrčak ID:

62254

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/62254

Publication date:

15.12.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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