コメント : 質疑応答と若干のまとめから各報告へフィードバックする(<特集1>四国遍路-ピルグリメージとオーラル・ヒストリー)

抄録

All three symposiasts have experienced pilgrimage. Having listened to the pilgrims' comments, I found generational differences and a common point in their comments. A historian pointed out changing periods as seen through the clothes of the pilgrims. A religious scholar pointed out that middle age and elderly pilgrims were carrying "equipment for death," and a sociologist stated that the movement of people in the generation following that which experienced the American internment camps can also be called a "narrator's collective." The presenters of this symposium share the common experience of participation in the Shikoku pilgrimage, and find differences between generations and age groups. Even if discussion of the pilgrimage starts from a different aspect, for example tourism, it is difficult to talk about the Shikoku Henro without dealing with the religiousness. An additional problem shared by the presenters is that of what can be spoken and what cannot. This is an issue of importance to any research question in the field of oral history.