caa a22 4500 469025387 CHVBK 20180323132728.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00241218 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00241218 Bunkše E. University of Delaware, Department of Geography, 19716, Newark, DE, USA aut God, thine earth is burning: Nature attitudes and the Latvian drive for independence [Elektronische Daten] [E. Bunkše] The dominant element in Latvian culture is nature rather than history. Latvians are as bound to place, to landscape, to particular geographies, as other peoples are bound to tribal legends and religions. Incorporation of this Baltic land into the Soviet Union in 1940 occasioned dramatic conflicts between these deeply-rooted orientations to the concrete facts of nature and the abstract formulations of Marxism-Leninism. The nature culture of Latvia, celebrated in daina, folk arts and crafts, is the bedrock on which the current independence movement has been built. Two major challenges are being addressed: the overt political one between Moscow center and the Baltic republics, and a deep intellectual conflict between the closed ideology of Marxism-Leninism and the open-ended nature and place-oriented cultures of the Baltic peoples. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/2(1992-02-01), 203-209 0343-2521 26:2<203 1992 26 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00241218 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00241218 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bunkše E. University of Delaware, Department of Geography, 19716, Newark, DE, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/2(1992-02-01), 203-209 0343-2521 26:2<203 1992 26 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer