This essay intends to propose an interpretation of Sardinia's landscape as an account of identity, in which the signs of its inhabitants' identity are written - but also the signs of the identity of the "Other" with whom the Sardinians found themselves living and working over the course of their history. In Sardinia, many items express the action of the "Other": signs impressed upon the territory by outsiders but that, over the passage of time and as the inhabitants' sensitivity changed, took on a different symbolic value, becoming a symbol of identity for the settled communities.
Il contributo propone una lettura geostorica del paesaggio della Sardegna come racconto identitario nel quale sono scritti i segni dell'identità dei suoi abitanti ma anche i segni dell'identità dell' "Altro" con cui i Sardi si sono trovati a vivere e operare nel corso della loro storia. In Sardegna molti manufatti sono espressione dell'azione dell' "Altro", segni impressi nel territorio dagli outsiders ma che, col passare del tempo e col mutare della sensibilità degli abitanti, si sono caricati di valore simbolico diverso fino a diventare simbolo identitario per le comunità insediate.
Passing through the Sardinian landscape in search of signs of identity and otherness
Sebastiana Nocco
2018
Abstract
This essay intends to propose an interpretation of Sardinia's landscape as an account of identity, in which the signs of its inhabitants' identity are written - but also the signs of the identity of the "Other" with whom the Sardinians found themselves living and working over the course of their history. In Sardinia, many items express the action of the "Other": signs impressed upon the territory by outsiders but that, over the passage of time and as the inhabitants' sensitivity changed, took on a different symbolic value, becoming a symbol of identity for the settled communities.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.