Heinrich Danioth: Call to prayer
The Uri clocks run differently
model of a traditional world?
hierarchy
Anselm Zurfluh / Albrt Hauser; http://www.thesisverlag.ch/presse-uri.htm
12.5.10
"It's not illegal to let your mind wander in the mountains and the idea to give the pre-and epitome of this small circle is to be found in the valley community. Such unusually to secure the small Menschenhäufleins thoughtful feeling must have been there, nurtured for centuries, where the individual is powerless against an overbearing, cold, cruel nature. "
Karl Schmid these sentences wrote in a study of the small circle. Anselm Zurfluh, who lives in Silenen, in France teaching historians, has looked into because of the source material and a rich literature of this question How has the small circle -. meant here is Uri - under circumstances and conditions that changed since the 17th century, say can there been dominant who lives and livelihoods of mountain people limited and determine today?
The might of nature
a geographical reality: The nature, the climate set, the mountains, it is stated in the first chapter, physical limits. Steep slopes - to the Wild haymaking was needed at that time some crampons - more difficult and complicated the agricultural work. Long and snowy winter avalanches threatened with their people and affecting adversely the ground. And after the snow melts there were repeated large and devastating floods. Think of the disaster a few years ago. Although there is the hair dryer that heats including the low level of Altdorf, but on the whole, the habitat is scarce and the hostile nature. The Uri is a
Space over which he does not control. To accomplish this "on physical reality" to express, he said, and still speaks of "it". The "it" is by definition something that is neither comprehensible nor understandable. Even Sigmund Freud was the "it" spoken, and the Uri doctor and folklorist Edward Renner described the phenomenon especially with reference to the Uri Share examples. To fulfill its superior power to foreclose and to defend the man pulls a guard ring, from which the power of the "it" is banished. This creates something of a sacred space in which a man thanks to certain rites - think of the Call to prayer - the "it" commands stop. A final protection is certainly there, as well as the legends Teaching, no. What has
Herbert Lüthy in his book, "France's clocks are different" words, one could partially transferred to the Uri. The Uri clocks are different. The Reformation had no chance here, and the French Revolution brought about little change of attitude. But the Uri knew to compete well. In the age of the coaches and the Säumerverkehrs they benefited from the Gotthard Pass. They were so connected with this mountain that a difficult adjustment to new conditions were. The first train in 1882, the canton Uri greeted with black flags.
children wealth
Some demographic components: Because a birth prevention by and large lacked, it was not possible to adjust the population density manufacturing capabilities. The impoverished people, especially in the 19th Century, and had no choice but to accept the canton of imported foreign entrepreneurs industrialization. But clashes between the old and the new world were almost programmed. Outsiders express effort to understand this mentality. One example: Klaus passport sold a little girl rhododendrons. A motorist gets out to buy them, but he's no small change. The mother, who surrounds on the doorstep of the house, from a large group of children appear, is not able to touch to the small change, because money has not. The car driver to his wife: This is the result of so many children.
In fact, in Uri was left to the propagation of the natural coincidence. Number of children and birth have been and are higher than in other regions. However, now approaches the number of children to the numbers in other cantons and countries. But the birth rate is still higher than elsewhere. Have children, that was and is something beautiful and wonderful, and it belonged to the divine responsibility. On the other hand, had no children to be a disaster. prove the pilgrimages of married couples without children, it clearly. But the Uri practiced birth control is not therefore not for lack of funds, but because they had no motivation to. They knew that children could help, but they knew also that a too large group of children was contrary to the prosperity. This has led to the emigration and as promptly pay for services.
seems almost exotic, from today's perspective, the "heavens". It is an enlightened travel writer of the 18th Century survived. When children were sick, you do not always sought the help of a few doctors and healers, but have masses read, "so that they may die soon." And they shed, the Enlightenment, no tears: "On the contrary, you can be happy, and it is: You're now an angel in heaven." Victim of a deception. It is first all wrong, that to be interpreted as callousness. The idea, Zurfluh that a dead child could be a boon is, moreover, nothing of pastors and even less to set a unreflective functionalism: "It is very easy for the people of a spiritual help which the Church supports and affirms was.
dependence
The fact that the marriage in Uri circles were small is not surprising. Similar findings have been in other cantons - made - such as Wallis. Although there had been no lack of contacts with strangers (Gotthardpass!), the men brought their wives almost always in their own village. Thus 70 percent the family of Hänsler Bürglen and Unterschächen 1920-1939 their wives in a circle of less than two miles looking for. Often solved the issue of child suitability of a woman very easily. Did the Kiltgang to a premarital conception, one could see that in no way as bad luck. The ratio was just legalized by marriage. The ancestral division of labor - the man working in the field and in the workshop, and he works in politics, but the woman takes care of the children - this division of labor was seen as natural and God-given.
The study of economic conditions (agriculture, mercenary service, transportation service, Crafts, policy results) for Zurfluh the conclusion that the Uri to the beginning of the 20th Century in part on the earnings of other survived. That they were doomed. To accept the industry and factory work was also complicated by the belief. It was and is very happy prosperous, so rich. At the same time there is distrust of speculative or fast earning. (As Zurfluh wrote his book, it gave the Kings Club yet. It is remarkable that so many Uri involved.)
What about "equality" of democracy, political rights? Reply from Zurfluh: "In Uri everyone has their rightful place." There is an above and below. The hierarchy is not sentenced or rejected. Important as this question seems to be different: what church and what religion you belong to? As before, the powerful Catholic Church and the theology of the Uri no formal structures of thought. Urner review of the world is magical, and it shall and may be with "it" does not rid the world. Herein voters and church largely the same. This is perhaps one reason why there were very few in Uri witch hunts. Although the Uri company is locked in a certain sense, it is to be no visible Zurfluh ordeal. The Uri society perceives what is elsewhere seen as problematic, as unproblematic. run in a closed system, all cultural Changes without too much difficulty. Can
so Zurfluh asks at the end of his book, Uri's model of the mountain regions of Switzerland to transfer? Without answering the question clearly is Zurfluh but rather to recognize that he replied in the affirmative. Whether the traditional world in Uri himself able to say that the future will tell. Certainly, there are two poles, the progress on the one hand and the duration of the other. These are the poles, but they are complementary and not mutually exclusive. What weight you want to attach these two poles, may decide that question every reader for himself. The book by Zurfluh can help him.
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