Sveti krajolik u kontekstu modernosti, zagađenja i zaštite okoliša na primjeru rijeke Yamune u sjevernoj Indiji

master's thesis

• Title (english): The sacred landscape in the context of modernity, pollution and environmental protection on the example of the Yamuna river in Northern India
• Author: Ana Rajić
• Mentor: Hrvoje Čargonja (mentor)
• Mentor: Duško Petrović (mentor)
• Committee member: Ivona Grgurinović (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2022-01-27, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Ethnology and Anthropology; Anthropology

Abstract

Cilj ovog diplomskog rada jest suočiti tradicionalnu važnost mjesta hodočašća u Indiji, kao što je rijeka Yamuna s eksploatacijskim utjecajima galopirajuće industrijalizacije i urbanizacije koja transformira i onečišćuje krajolik svetog mjesta. Propitat će se teološki i vjerski značaj rijeke, te mitologija i obredi usporedno s posljedicama suvremenih ekonomskih aktivnosti na rijeku. Razradit će se dva oblika zaštita okoliša primijenjena na rijeci Yamuni; devocijska ekologija kao religijski pristup, te ekološka pravna osobnost kao analogni oblik unutar zakonodavnog konteksta. Inicijative za očuvanje rijeke Yamune razmotrit će se kroz poddiscipline antropologije okoliša, religije i ekologije, te religijskog environmentalizma. Kulturološkim i ekološkim interpretacijama istražit će se reakcije na takav disonantan stav prema nečem što je istovremeno sveto i zagađeno. Etnografska građa sastoji će se od stručnih, arhivskih i medijskih izvora.

Abstract (english)

The aim of this graduate work is to confront the traditional importance of a pilgrimage site in India, such as the Yamuna river with the exploitative influences of galloping industrialization and urbanization that transforms and contaminates a sacralised environment. The thesis will present the theological understanding of the Yamuna river, her religious significance, mythology and rituals with the consequences that modern economic activities have on the river. Two types of environmental protection applied on the Yamuna river will be elaborated; devotional ecology as a religious approach, and environmental personhood as an analogous effort within the legislative context. Initiatives to preserve the Yamuna River will be examined through the subdisciplines of religion and ecology, religious environmentalism and environmental anthropology. The work will explore ways of responding to such a dissonant attitude toward the place that is both sacred and polluted in the process of transformation. Ethnographic material consists of scientific material, archives and media sources.

• Keywords: religijski environmentalizam; rijeka Yamuna; devocijska ekologija; ekološka pravna osobnost
• Keywords (english): religious environmentalism; Yamuna river; devotional ecology; environmental personhood
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:082575
• Study programme: Title: Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (double major); Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra etnologije i kulturne antropologije (magistar/magistra etnologije i kulturne antropologije)
• Study programme: Title: Anthropology (double major); Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra antropologije (magistar/magistra antropologije)
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• Created on: 2022-01-28 18:29:27