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New ''Sacred'' Places: Heritage Practices on Heritage Sites

This paper analyses the constitution of a veneration place through material practices. It is focused on how the existing properties/capacities of the place were utilized or deployed to create a new set of spatial and material relations embodying notions of nation, national unity, community, sacrifice and victory in war. These issues are addressed in a case study regarding complex mutual relationships between a prehistoric stone cairn, war memorial and commemoration practice (Štrkovača hill, Polača, Zadar County, Croatia).

War in Croatia (1991-1995), war memorial, prehistoric stone cairn, embodiment, materiality, non-human agency, affect

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