Journey in a Life Story and Pilgrimage: Exploring the Connection Between Humans and Place in a First-Person Narrative

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.2478/jef-2021-0023

T. Jaago, T. Sepp

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Abstract This paper will explore the relationship between humans and place mediated in first-person narratives. By focusing on episodes that reveal the change in the ordinary role of the person, we examine how they describe the place and how they perceive the environment in their changed role. Drawing on interviews with a man who has walked a pilgrimage/hiking trail as well as a written life story from the collections of the Estonian Cultural History Archives, we analyse the description of modern journeys and the journeys that took place in the vortex of events during World War II. We suggest that the descriptions of place-making under consideration are related not only to subjective experiences and storytelling skills, but also to more general contexts, such as historical-political, economic, or religious frames. Comparing various kinds of place-making description we attempt to find the universal and context-sensitive aspects of journey descriptions. Finally, based on studies of oral history and cultural borders on the one hand, and pilgrimage studies on the other, a methodological question is asked: how should one apply these research methods and results to place-making research? Combining these research methods has turned out to be fruitful in creating a dialogue between experiences that have been formed in different circumstances, and through this to understand better the factors determining one’s sense of place.

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生命故事之旅和朝圣之旅:以第一人称叙事探索人与地方之间的联系

摘要本文将探讨第一人称叙事中人与地方的关系。通过关注揭示人的普通角色变化的情节，我们考察了他们如何描述这个地方，以及他们如何在角色变化中感知环境。根据对一名走过朝圣/徒步旅行路线的男子的采访，以及爱沙尼亚文化历史档案馆收藏的一篇书面人生故事，我们分析了对现代旅程和二战期间发生在事件漩涡中的旅程的描述。我们认为，对所考虑的地点制作的描述不仅与主观经验和讲故事的技能有关，还与更普遍的背景有关，如历史政治、经济或宗教框架。通过比较各种各样的地点描写，我们试图找到旅程描写的普遍性和语境敏感性。最后，在口述历史和文化边界研究以及朝圣研究的基础上，提出了一个方法论问题：如何将这些研究方法和结果应用于地名研究？事实证明，将这些研究方法结合起来，可以在不同环境下形成的经验之间建立对话，并通过对话更好地理解决定一个人位置感的因素。

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Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JEF) is a multidisciplinary forum for scholars. Addressed to an international scholarly audience, JEF is open to contributions from researchers all over the world. JEF publishes articles in the research areas of ethnology, folkloristics, museology, cultural and social anthropology. It includes both studies focused on the empirical analysis of particular cases as well as those that are more theoretically oriented.