SA 201W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sherry Ortner, Sherpa People
27 Sep 2015
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Japan, objects of rurality/rural places are symbols of national identity. Discussion notes (travel and identity and mediated marriage) 9/26/2015: expressed through tourism; urban life very westernized , countryside more. Tourism helps connect rural sites, notions of citizenship and identity maintained. Urban japanese (92% of pop. ) see rural land in two ways: (intentionally and tactically) Furusato vs. inaka: inaka ( elds and houses/farmlands, uninhabited/uninhabitable (frontier, wasteland, these two ideas have evolved, furusato: connection/nostalgia to one"s homeland (rural area speci cally, nost- (sickness/diseas) algia (great desire [ sickness" for old memories]) Symbols: something that stands for something else, in abbreviated way: summarizing symbols - big idea -> one idea/object; one thing that stands for a while, elaborating symbols - sorting coherent places/people/ideas in order, ex. cruci x, ags, ex. Hockey (one valued thing represents many other things), terry fox story (key scenarios, stories about values shared) undermine) existing structures and power relationships.
