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Author(s): | Alexandre, R. |
Date: | 2019 |
Title: | Being and landscape: an ontological inquiry into a Japanese rural community |
Volume: | 20 |
Number: | 3 |
Pages: | 232 - 246 |
ISSN: | 1444-2213 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.1080/14442213.2019.1615121 |
Keywords: | Anthropology of Landscape Furusato Ethics Phenomenology Heidegger |
Abstract: | This essay aims to reflect on the idea of landscape and our relationship with it by taking the Japanese notion of furusato (native place) in its ontological dimension. Grounded in Heidegger’s ‘phenomenology of Being’ and ‘ontology’, a phenomenological understanding of fieldwork experience in a Japanese rural community will be developed in order to rethink both the furusato and the ‘Being-landscape’ relation. As a consequence, we will be concerned not with how people speak about landscape, but with how the landscape speaks through people. What will be brought to light are the landscape’s moral and relational dimensions: namely, (i) the responsibility towards both our communities and future generations and (ii) a more-than-physical understanding of landscape that alerts us to our belonging to a common world comprised of relationships and tasks. |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | CRIA-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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