SACRED MOUNTAINS OF KHAKASSIA: PROBLEMS OF PROTECTION AND MUSEUMIFICATION
L.V. Yeremin
Keywords: objects of religious worship, cultural heritage of Khakassia, museumification, conservation
Abstract
Notions of the sacred significance of mountain peaks and their “inhabitants”, mountain spirits, are one of the best preserved parts Khakassian traditional culture. Data on more than three hundred religious objects connected with the worship of mountains in Khakassia have survived to the present day. One of the main problems connected with protection of the objects of religious worship is their unclear legal status in the regional legislation of Khakassia. However, the open-air museums of Khakassia have accumulated positive experience in the sphere of museumification of religious objects of worship. The paper deals with analysis of these practicies. Specific character of these practices lies in the fact that preservation and actualization of such objects is a contributing factor to the ethnic group’s consolidation of, the incentive to strengthen its ideology.
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