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Talbain
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 Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:19 pm |
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Not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean national homeland? Religious homeland? Spiritual homeland? The things you cite seem to relate to nationalistic belief in land ownership (particularly the Kalevala and its related Finnish beliefs), but those types of things have been going on for thousands of years. The Jewish homeland, Muslim homeland, Christian and Catholic homeland. I hate to ask this, but be more specific about which or whose homeland you're interested in writing a term paper about?
My ideas about homeland are mostly in that the word itself is constantly misunderstood, mostly in that it carries too many meanings and carries a prepositional thought into many languages that otherwise lack accurate terminology for expression. Homeland by itself could mean just about anything relating to origin.
If we're looking at a nationalist homeland, you might take a gander at some North/South Korean history, since there's definitely a lot of "longing to return."
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Talbain
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:06 am |
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| Capt. Caveman wrote: |
This is actually a pretty big can of worms because there are lots of subtle shades of meaning difference in the idea of "the homeland"
It's going to mean something different to a people who have been forcibly exiled than it does to a people who have just sort of...dispersed over time. Likewise, it obviously means something different when it refers to a present location (The Department of Homeland Security), than when it represents some distant, perhaps even fictitious utopia (see: cults who believe in aliens coming to take them home, etc.)
I think every culture has a sense of "homeland" but what I think it is you're really asking about is how displaced cultures relate to their "homeland" and mythologize it, make it the reason for living. So really the question would be like "how do displaced cultures create a social reality?"
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This actually makes a lot of sense and I think it's quite a bit more specific in terms of a topic to start from. Making a thesis on "the homeland" is something you'd write multiple books about. If you're doing that, then by all means continue with it, but if not, you may want to bring it back so you don't get overwhelmed with information once you start researching.
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Talbain
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:16 pm |
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This actually makes a lot of sense and I think it's quite a bit more specific in terms of a topic to start from. Making a thesis on "the homeland" is something you'd write multiple books about. If you're doing that, then by all means continue with it, but if not, you may want to bring it back so you don't get overwhelmed with information once you start researching.
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Talbain you're overthinking this a bit, and assuming I have no framework. It's in the context of cultural metaphors which is primarily linguistic theory, so it is actually quite narrow. I don't really feel like explaining the entirety of these theories, so you'll have to forgive me for not giving you a point of reference. I don't need help with the thesis or even the context, but I just need some examples. So far, people have provided them as I need them. |
In that case, I wish you luck.
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