VELEBIT KAO „VILA VELEBITA“
MT. VELEBIT AS „THE FAIRY OF VELEBIT“

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author from the standpoint of the ecohistory evaluates Velebit, as it appears in the poem The Fairy of Velebit, probably as one of the most influential and prominent picture of this Croatian mountain. The material is contemplated in the light of anthropological definitions according to which, in simple terms, the culture is history of human adaptation to the environment. Analyze what is the song telling about Velebit in its earliest form, how it has changed and what speaks to us today. The original concept of nature in the poem The Fairy of Velebit was at first discreetly passed on to romantic fairy goddess like the idea of the national freedom. The song has been later adapted to social changes, and with them the cultural content of the fairy too, which, with the process of modernization, has became increasingly abstract all-croatian phenomena. Simultaneously, it has drawn attention to the natural-historic picture of Velebit’s karst and changes in relief as a result of the modernization have been monitored. To understand events in the environment, the concepts of the worldviews had been used. It is noted that the increasing popularity of The Fairy of Velebit is associated with folklorisation of the public life, as it turned out as opposed to the spread of modernist rational scientific knowledge about the Mt. Velebit. In this regard, this ecohistory analysis has elements of the cultural history and elements of the history of science.

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