Walking the Sutra: A semiotic theory of pilgrimage

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dc.contributor.authorPadoan, Tatsumaen
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dc.date.available2023-12-04T11:33:18Zen
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dc.date.issued2023-10-13
dc.date.updated2023-12-04T11:33:20Zen
dc.description.abstractThis chapter intends to map, from a semiotic perspective, the interconnections between ethnography, translation, and pilgrimage, by exploring the contemporary practice and revitalisation of a premodern ascetic route in Katsuragi, linked to the 28 sutra mounds of the Lotus Sutra (Katsuragi nijūhasshuku no kyōzuka). To analyse this pilgrimage, the chapter will focus on its actional spheres – targets, subjects, sources, and evaluators of pilgrimage considered as dynamic positions or ‘actants’ . More specifically, it will examine how these positions are constructed and negotiated by human and nonhuman actors, namely pilgrims, places, institutions, deities, and other entities. By exploring the actional spheres of pilgrimage, and the networks and hierarchies emerging from them, the chapter will investigate not only how pilgrims constantly translate a Buddhist scripture into a landscape by walking it, but also how they translate ascetic values acquired in the mountains into their everyday lives, at home and at work, in the private and public domains. Finally, it will analyse the role of ethnographers as translators, themselves engaged in making sense of the flow of pilgrimage through their participant observation and their bodily experience of the environment while learning to perceive a ‘semiotics of the natural world’.
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dc.identifier.citationPadoan, T. (2024) 'Walking the Sutra: A Semiotic Theory of Pilgrimage', in Katić, M. and Eade, J. (eds.) Approaching Pilgrimage: Methodological Issues Involved in Researching Routes, Sites, and Practices, London: Routledge, pp. 59-76. available: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003137764.
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003137764
dc.identifier.endpage76
dc.identifier.isbn9781003137764
dc.identifier.startpage59
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15312
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofApproaching Pilgrimage: Methodological Issues Involved in Researching Routes, Sites, and Practices
dc.rights© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Mario Katić and John Eade; individual chapters, the contributors. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Approaching Pilgrimage on 13 Oct 2023, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781003137764. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way
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dc.subjectSemiotics of pilgrimage
dc.subjectParis school semiotics
dc.subjectAnthropology of pilgrimage
dc.subjectActor-network-theory
dc.subjectPilgrimage as method
dc.subjectEthnography
dc.subjectTranslation
dc.subjectSense and signification
dc.subjectActants
dc.subjectAesthesis
dc.subjectSemiotics of the natural world
dc.subjectMichael Taussig
dc.subjectAlgirdas Greimas
dc.subjectMaurice Merleau-Ponty
dc.subjectKatsuragi Shugen
dc.subjectJapanese mountain asceticism
dc.titleWalking the Sutra: A semiotic theory of pilgrimage
dc.typeBook chapter
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