La conchiglia di San Giacomo

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dc.contributor.authorPadoan, Tatsumaen
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-07T12:23:14Z
dc.date.available2023-12-04T10:54:29Zen
dc.date.available2023-12-07T12:23:14Z
dc.date.issued2023-11-10
dc.date.updated2023-12-04T10:54:34Zen
dc.description.abstractThis article explores from an ethnosemiotic perspective the pilgrimage practice connected to the Way of St. James in Galicia, Spain, by looking in particular at the use of the scallop shell along the French Camino route. By combining a semiotic and ethnographic approach, and discussing current literature from the anthropology of pilgrimage, the article analyses the concept of "metasymbol". Metasymbols will be defined here as symbols of symbols, in which semantic threads (“isotopies”) are condensed and accumulated, encapsulated into an overarching plane of expression, and finally converging into an object of value (Greimas 1987), the scallop shell. We will show how the scallop shell - worn during the pilgrimage as a sign of distinction for the pilgrims, used as an indexical sign on the road to mark the way to Santiago, and even embodied by practitioners as food or tattoo - becomes an “apparatus of capture” (Deleuze and Guattari 1987), diagrammatically embedding the virtual memory of emerging relations generated during the pilgrimage. The sense of the scallop shell will thus progressively emerge as the ending point of a cumulative network of meaningful relations between people and events, condensing on this metasymbol a semiotic "form of life": an aesthetics of walking and an ethics of becoming, a valorisation of the event and a new philosophy of life, characterising the experience of the pilgrims.en
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dc.identifier.citationPadoan, Tatsuma (2023) 'La conchiglia di San Giacomo', in Mangano, D. and Sedda, F. (eds.), Simboli d’oggi. Critica dell'inflazione semiotica, Milan: Meltemi, pp. 233-253. isbn: 978-8855199087
dc.identifier.endpage253
dc.identifier.isbn978-8855199087
dc.identifier.isbn8855199080
dc.identifier.startpage223
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15313
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMeltemien
dc.relation.ispartofSimboli d'oggi. Critica dell'inflazione semiotica
dc.rights© 2023 Meltemi Press SRL
dc.subjectCamino de Santiago
dc.subjectAnthropology of pilgrimage
dc.subjectScallop shell
dc.subjectEthnosemiotics
dc.subjectMetasymbols
dc.subjectGilles Deleuze
dc.subjectDiagrams
dc.subjectForms of life
dc.titleLa conchiglia di San Giacomoen
dc.typeBook chapter
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