Naslov
Creating New Places of Memory: Construction of Bosnian Croat Pilgrimage Place of Kondžilo

Autori
Katić, Mario

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
I International Symposium on Culture of Remembrance. Bosnia and Herzegovina - "Culture of Remembrance: Twilight or New Awakening"

Mjesto i datum
Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina, 12.04.2014. - 13.04.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Kondžilo; Pilgrimage; Bosnian Croats; Sacred Landscape; Places of Memory

Sažetak
Kondžilo is a Bosnian Croat pilgrimage place in Northeast Bosnia established in the 18th century. The main reason for pilgrimage is a miraculous painting of Mary, the Mother of God. Before the 1990s war pilgrimage to Kondžilo was just another pilgrimage place in Bosnia and Herzegovina: neither more prominent nor important than other similar shrines. After the war ended and the miraculous painting was returned to Kondžilo, the shrine’s importance has rapidly increased. Pilgrimage to Kondžilo has become the symbol of the existence, homecoming, and survival for Croats from this area as well as for Bosnian Croats in general. The Catholic Church is now working with the local population and pilgrims to transform a small chapel in the woods into a sacred landscape with multiple functions. This process of place-making crucially involves the materialisation of symbols in the landscape in order to project an image and send out a story about the Bosnian Croat struggle and the need for national unity – thus creating new places of memory. Drawing on my own ethnographic research and experience as participant in the pilgrimage, I aim to demonstrate how building a shrine and creating new places of memory in the sacred landscape of Kondžilo affects pilgrims, their religious practices, and pilgrimage experiences, as well as the perception of their community. The construction and changes that have happened at Kondžilo and its environs recently have intensified the significance of this pilgrimage place, introduced new practices, created a sacred landscape consisting of prominent topoi, which seek to promote the sanctity of the home and the need for Croats to return to Bosnia to honour their ancestors and fallen soldiers, and to keep the faith in Christ and His Mother – the Queen of the Croats. This “programme” is materially present in the landscape, and while walking through this space people can easily learn what their heritage is, what the reality is and how they should work on the future.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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