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Panel 7 The role of Religious Sites and Structures in Rural Landscapes and Communities

dc.contributor.authorBrabec, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts - Amherst
dc.date2023-09-24T00:21:50.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T17:38:49Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T17:38:49Z
dc.description<p><strong>Elizabeth Brabec</strong> is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also Director of the research center, the Center for Heritage and Society. She works in cultural landscapes issues and is a member of the ISCCL.</p>
dc.description.abstractThis panel explores the heritage of religious sites in rural landscapes and communities of central and eastern Europe, and Morocco. Religious sites and their community networks within the rural landscape are often overlooked as a collective resource. However, they provide overlapping levels of order in the landscape that derive from various social classes and religious traditions. Often these layers of class and spiritual tradition are invisible to those outside of the class/social/cultural group that created it and appear only as isolated remnant icons unrelated to their communities or landscape complexes. However, closer reading of the monuments, sites and landscapes of these areas reveal connected networks of places and routes that define a cultural and nuanced reading of both society and the natural landscape. They are also an important resource, that if interpreted, can be a driver for tourism and economic development. This panel will present experiences from three different regions: Musteata on the fortified churches of Transylvania, Romania; Ziss and Smolik on the place of Jewish sites in the Saharan region of southern Morocco; and Brabec on the sites and sacral architecture of the rural landscape of western Bohemia, Czechia.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/j9s7-2b35
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/30579
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectsacred sites; sacred heritage; rural sacred sites; rural sacred landscapes
dc.subjectAnthropology
dc.subjectCultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis
dc.subjectHistoric Preservation and Conservation
dc.subjectLandscape Architecture
dc.subjectSocial and Cultural Anthropology
dc.titlePanel 7 The role of Religious Sites and Structures in Rural Landscapes and Communities
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