Communicative cultural practices of development of memorative landscape (based on the example of Arkaim)
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https://doi.org/10.47475/2070-0695-2023-50-4-85-88Keywords:
memorial landscape, identity, Arkaim, cultural memory, rituals, practicesAbstract
The article examines various manifestations of identity types that materialize in the memorial landscape using the example of Arkaim, an archaeological site in the Chelyabinsk region. The theoretical basis of the study was the “theory of social identity”. Based on intensive observations and seven interviews with visitors to Arkaim, a conclusion is drawn about through which objects identity is reflected in the memorial landscape. They become, for example, the tops of hills and stone slabs. The rituals performed by visitors to Arkaim are usually associated with religion or have their origin in historically established folk traditions. Moreover, such rituals are traditional for those peoples whose many generations live in the Urals (where the archaeological monument Arkaim itself is located). The result of the study is the conclusion that in Arkaim people most often do not strive to find new practices and rituals, but to repeat those already familiar to them. The goal of such visitors is, first of all, to achieve the fulfillment of some desire. Researchers believe that the motivation to turn to the natural landscape for their implementation is the search for and acquisition of one’s own identity. This can be achieved precisely by conducting ceremonies and rituals on the landscape objects of the Arkaim monument.
Acknowledgments: The study was Supported by the Russian Science Foundation and Chelyabinsk region, No 23-18-20098, https://rscf.ru/en/project/23-18-20098/
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