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Sacred Sites - Contested Rites/Rights - Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments (Paperback)
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Sacred Sites - Contested Rites/Rights - Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments (Paperback)
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Price R267
Discovery Miles 2 670
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Paganism is held to be the fastest growing 'religion' in Britain
today. Pagan identities and constructions of sacredness contest
assumptions of a 'closed' past and untouchable heritage, within a
socio-politics in which prehistoric archaeology -- the stone
circles, burial cairns and rock art of the British Isles -- is
itself subject to political and economic threats. Pagans see
prehistoric monuments in a living, enchanted landscape of deities,
ancestors, spirits, 'wights' and other non-human agencies engaged
with for personal and community empowerment. From all areas of
Britain and indeed worldwide, people come to sacred sites of
prehistory to make pilgrimage, befriend places, give offerings, act
as unofficial 'site guardians', campaign for 'site welfare'. Summer
solstice access at Stonehenge attracts tens of thousands of
celebrants; threats of quarrying near Derbyshire's Nine Ladies
stone circle or Yorkshire's Thornborough Henges lead to protests
and campaigns for the preservation of sacred landscapes and
conservation of plant and animal species. Pagans can be seen as
allies to the interests of heritage management, yet instances of
site damage and recent claims for the reburial of non-Christian
human remains disrupt the preservation ethos of those who manage
and study these sites, and the large-scale celebrations at
Stonehenge and Avebury are subject to continual negotiation. In
this book an anthropologist (Blain) and archaeologist (Wallis)
examine interfaces between paganisms and archaeology, considering
the emergence of 'sacred sites' in pagan and heritage discourse and
implications of pagan involvement for heritage management,
archaeology, anthropology -- and for pagans themselves, as well as
considering practical guidelines for reciprocal benefit.
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