A place for grief and belief: the Witness Cairn, Isle of Whithorn, Galloway, Scotland

Maddrell, Avril

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“…We are free to understand a myth based on its 'ideological' premise or to start from our own personal interpretation. A place may, because of its mythical connotations, acquire a shared set of beliefs, ideas, understandings and values that all show that it represents something more, corresponding to a faith (Maddrell, 2009;Urry, 1995). A myth is primarily evaluated from two perspectives: what the symbol represents and the extent to which the symbol meets our cultural needs.…”

Section: Myth a Place-related Mental Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The communal is related to the spiritual and the place is characterised as a religious place. Urry (1995) and Maddrell (2009) highlight that although the interpretation of a myth is individual, there are common elements in how a place is understood that may best be described in terms of sacredness. One of the respondents highlighted the importance of 'sociali [sing] with other people about their experience and what has happen[ed] but during daytime it was really to come to a spiritual and/or a religious space'.…”

Section: Finisterre: the Attraction Of A Borderlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Finisterre: being and becoming a myth-related tourist destination

Nilsson

Blom

2018

Leisure Studies

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The phenomenon of travelling to myth-related places has had a revival in recent decades, warranting an investigation of how such places are perceived by today's tourists. While established myths and the specific places they are associated with have been extensively researched, there is as yet relatively little research on how tourists appropriate and rework conventional myth-based place meaning and identity. The aim of this article is to contribute to wider debates on place, meaning and identity in tourism studies particularly as regards myth-related tourist destinations. Relying on theories of place and identity, we highlight how mythical places and their identities are appropriated and consumed by and made part of individual tourists' experiences. Drawing on qualitative interviews with tourists journeying to Finisterre in Spain, this article shows how tourists rework the classical symbolism surrounding mythical places and imbue these with new meanings and identities. Based on Finisterre as a case, our study found out that myth-related places have become tourist-driven attractions: at present it is tourist flows that shape traditional myth destinations. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Myth a Place-related Mental Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Finisterre: the Attraction Of A Borderlandmentioning

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Finisterre: being and becoming a myth-related tourist destination

Nilsson

Blom

2018

Leisure Studies

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“…Memorials and shrines offer comfort and sites of meaning-making to the bereaved. (Miller and Crabtree 2005;Maddrell 2009). The process of questing is embedded in healing places whether spirituallycentred or not, but they are, as Miller and Crabtree assert, learning landscapes, where "hope flourishes over time" (Kong 2004).…”

Section: Therapeutic Landscapes Spirituality and Geographymentioning

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Sacred Spaces, Healing Places: Therapeutic Landscapes of Spiritual Significance

Perriam

2014

J Med Humanit

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Understandings of the relationship between space, culture and belief are formative in the experience of seeking healing. This paper examines the relationship between place, healing and spirituality in the context of interdisciplinary perspectives (particularly those of the medical humanities) on healing and well-being. The paper examines places of spiritual significance and their relationship to healing in the 'uncertain' quest for alleviation or cure, exploring these thematics in the context of the work on the geographies of 'therapeutic landscapes.' Through a discussion of fieldwork at two sites in Perthshire, Scotland, a framework is proposed for the investigation of therapeutic sites of spiritual significance, detailing features such as connection, renewal, reproduction, participation, alleviation and expectation. A deeper examination of sites of healing with spiritual significance, it is proposed, has the potential to develop greater understandings of the ways in which people experience illness and well-being.

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“…In the last decade or so increasing attention has been directed towards the social and cultural geographies of death and dying (see, for example, Kong, 1999;Maddrell, 2009;Maddrell & Sidaway, 2010;Teather, 1998;2001). Important points of reference in this work are space and place and the meanings with which these are imbued in the wider context of 'deathscapes' (Kong, 1999;Maddrell & Sidaway, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Important points of reference in this work are space and place and the meanings with which these are imbued in the wider context of 'deathscapes' (Kong, 1999;Maddrell & Sidaway, 2010). This work has included, inter alia, explorations of memorialisation and bereavement in spaces of remembrance such as war memorials (Gough, 2004;Muzaini & Yeoh, 2007), roadsides (Klaassens, Groote, & Huigen, 2009), cairns (Maddrell, 2009) and the home (Wojtkowiak & Venbrux, 2010), as well as the symbolic meanings of 'formal' spaces for the dead such as cemeteries (Teather, 1998). Virtual spaces have also become important as sites of remembrance and mourning through on-line and mobile phone commemorative practices (Kong, 2012;Maddrell, 2012).…”

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Connecting global health interventions and lived experiences: suspending ‘normality’ at funerals in rural Tanzania

Dunn

Mare

Makungu

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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. (2016) 'Connecting global health interventions and lived experiences : suspending`normality' at funerals in rural Tanzania.', Social and cultural geography., 17 (2). pp. 262-281.Further information on publisher's website: Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract:In this paper we use the funeral space and its liminal nature as a milieu for exploring how a 'modern' health intervention, the mosquito bednet, is negotiated by its recipients in relation to its (non)-usage in such spaces. With a focus on sleeping arrangements at funerals and drawing on empirical data from participants living in rural southern Tanzania, we discuss how the bednet is linked to the notion of being unsympathetic to the death. Viewed as a symbol of modernity and a reflection of wealth and individual pride, the bednet becomes physically and symbolically inappropriate in the more sacred, 'in-between' site of the funeral. We also uncover how risk perceptions regarding malaria transmission are re-cast in funeral spaces, with socio-cultural practices and health-related behaviours being simultaneously 'risky' for individual mourners and reinforcing in terms of group social cohesion. As individual mourners' concerns about malaria risks are suspended, notions of pain and discomfort come to the fore as part of the mourning process and respect for the deceased.

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A place for grief and belief: the Witness Cairn, Isle of Whithorn, Galloway, Scotland

Cited by 73 publications

References 44 publications

Finisterre: being and becoming a myth-related tourist destination

Finisterre: being and becoming a myth-related tourist destination

Sacred Spaces, Healing Places: Therapeutic Landscapes of Spiritual Significance

Connecting global health interventions and lived experiences: suspending ‘normality’ at funerals in rural Tanzania

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