Rodríguez-Becerra Salvador: Andalúziai fogadalmi képek (ex-voto): az ember és a természetfölötti kapcsolatának távlatai. In: Kép, képmás, kultusz : [a 6. Szegedi Vallási Néprajzi Konferencia 2002. október 8-10. tanulmányai], (16). pp. 91-97. (2006)
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Abstract
One of the Autonomous Communities of Spain, Andalusia comprises a territory of 87.268 square kilometers. In 1979, the author conducted an ethnographic survey of the entire region, and discovered that the majority of pictorial ex-votos were to be found in Marian shrines in the western provinces of Andalusia. As a result of analysis and cataloguing of this material, a book was published entitled The Exvotos ofAndalusia (1980), which was a pioneering effort on this subject in Spain. The objective of the work was to gain insight into the forms, the sensibilities, and the relationships between the men and women of Andalusia and the supernatural beings they worship through an understanding of the ex-voto as a religious metaphor. The vow has a specifically reciprocal basis, normally expressed not in economic terms but rather as an exchange of favors. Ex-voto can be defined as a donation to a holy image, made publicly, generally put on display in a shrine or rathersacred site, in exchange for the granting of divine favor. The ex-voto acts also as a public testimony to the efficacy and glory of the holy image. The exvotos are also public and permanent avowals of the power of the image, enhancing its prestige. Thus the ex-voto, aside from being a testament to the gratitude of favored individuals, are also public and permanent avowals of the power of the image, enhancing its prestige. Having examined literally thousands of forms of ex-voto in Andalusia, two types were found. First, there is the narrative mode. This includes pictures, photographs and texts. Secondly there is the symbolic mode comprising religious medals, paintings, replicas of human organs and limbs, and so on, ad infinitum. It has to be distinguished between the individual and the collective or multiple forms. When painted, the ex-votos tend toward the naive; that is, the artists are untaught and ignorant of technical concepts like perspective and spacing. They tend to be schematic and rudimentary. Principle among motives for ex-votos is serious illness, followed by accidents. Each historical epoch is defined by its own dangers. It should be obvious from the above that ex-votos represent a patrimonial treasure of inestimable value, since they represent an important material expression of folk belief at any given moment in time. The Catholic Church, in its new Bill of Canonical Rights, section 1234, paragraph 2, makes the following point: "In all shrines and in adjacent areas, ex-votos and other examples of devotional folk art and piety are to be rigorously conserved." As far as civil legislation is concerned, law 16/1985 ofApril 25th promulgated by the Spanish HistoricalAuthority (articles 46 and 47) and the Law ofAndalusian Historical Patrimony both include the ex-votos as part of the protected ethnographic property of Spain.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Other title: | The ex-votos of Andalusia : perspectives on human relations with the supernatural |
Journal or Publication Title: | Kép, képmás, kultusz : [a 6. Szegedi Vallási Néprajzi Konferencia 2002. október 8-10. tanulmányai] |
Date: | 2006 |
Volume: | 16 |
ISSN: | 1419-1288 |
ISBN: | 963 482 750 0 |
Page Range: | pp. 91-97 |
Series Name: | Szegedi vallási néprajzi könyvtár |
Language: | Hungarian, English |
Contributors: | Contribution Name Translator Szauter Dóra |
Event Title: | Szegedi Vallási Néprajzi Konferencia (6.) (2002) (Szeged) |
Related URLs: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/70238/ |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ikonográfia - néprajz - andalúziai, Vallási néprajz - andalúziai, Népi vallásosság, Egyházi művészet - katolikus - Magyarország |
Additional Information: | Bibliogr.: 96. p. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven |
Subjects: | 06. Humanities 06. Humanities > 06.03. Philosophy, ethics and religion 06. Humanities > 06.04. Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music) |
Date Deposited: | 2020. Sep. 18. 13:01 |
Last Modified: | 2022. Feb. 02. 10:46 |
URI: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/70342 |
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