“WHERE IS THE SNAKES’ HILL?” – A COMPARATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CULTURAL CHANGES IN ZMIJARNIK
Keywords:
zmijarnik, place, snake, church
Abstract
This article examines the cultural changes in the development of the so-called Zmijarnik (Snakes’ Hill), located in the village of Orman, near the City of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. It is based on the ethnographic data collected within different periods, namely in 1937, 1971 and 2014. The ethnographic findings interpret the ways of interacting between the ‘place’ and people, through people’s perceptions, ideas and behaviours related with a given place that were common at one time and their modifications in another time, until today. Additionally, it examines the spatial changes that occurred over time in the respective place, which prompted cultural changes attributed to it. From a place associated with snakes, i.e. their cult, it had been transformed through time and gradually acquired a new form of Christian significance. A comparative account of the successive stages related to this place interprets its status and significance in the people’s perception over time.
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China. ProQuest LCC.
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etnografska i kulturno-politička izlaganja. Beograd: Štamparija “Sveti
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http://www.academia.edu/3269041/Understanding_Cultural_Landscapes.
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in Indigenous Australia. In: Urban Policy and Research, Vol. 20 (1).
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predanija za svetite kamenja. In: Spektar, XXIX, 57 (1). Skopje:
Institut za makedonska literatura. 119–128.
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religija i obredna praksa. Skopje: Selektor.
Popovska, Dragica. 2012. Mistikata na kamenot. Skopje: Institut za
nacionalna istorija.
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Sacred Stones in Macedonian Folk Tradition. In: Croatian Journal of
Ethnology and Folklore Research Narodna Umjetnost 49 (1). Zagreb:
Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku. 95–111.
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and Tourist Attraction. In: Pilgrimage and Sacred Places in Southeast Europe: History, Religious Tourism and Contemporary Trends. Mario
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South East Europe. Münster: Lit Verlag. 65–77.
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narodne medicine u jugoistocnoj Evropi. In: Makedonski folklor, XVII,
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Spirovska, Lepa. 1971. Kultot kon zmiite vo seloto Orman (Skopsko). In:
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Cepenkov”. 141–146.
Stek, Tesse Dieder. 2009. Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican
Italy: A Contextual Approach to Religious Aspects of Rural Society
after the Roman Conquest. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Vinogradova, Ljudmila N. Tolstaja Svetlana M. 1989. Materialy k
sravnitel’noj karakteristike ženskih mifologičeskih personažej.
Materialy k VI meždunarodnomu kongressu po izučeniju stran
jugovostočnoj Evropy, Sofija, 30. VII.89-6. IX. 89. Moskva: Problemy
kul’tury. 86–114.
Vražinovski, Tanas. 2000. Rečnik na narodnata mitologija na Makedoncite.
Prilep-Skopje: Institut za staroslovenska kultura and Matica
makedonska.
Vražinovski, Tanas. 1998. Narodna mitologija na Makedoncite. book 1.
Skopje–Prilep: Institut za staroslovenska kultura-Prilep, Matica
makedonska.
Wang, Shu-Yi. 2008. Tradition, Memory and the Culture of Place:
Continuity and Change in Ancient City of Pingyao, China. ProQuest
LCC.
Žikić, Bojan. 2010. Antropolosko proučavanje popularne culture. U:
Etnoantropoloski problemi 5 (2). Beograd: Filozofski fakultet
Univerziteta u Beogradu, Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju. 17–
39.
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2019-10-16
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Popovska, D. (2019). “WHERE IS THE SNAKES’ HILL?” – A COMPARATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CULTURAL CHANGES IN ZMIJARNIK. Philological Studies, 15(1), 178-199. Retrieved from https://journals.ukim.mk/index.php/philologicalstudies/article/view/246
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