Antropologinė „namų“ idėjos perspektyva : lietuvių diasporos žmonių tikslas ar saugi vieta „judant“?

Abstract

In the hope of elucidating how diaspora Lithuanians “returning” to Lithuania understand the term “home”, what symbols, relics, and activities this concept embraces, where this “home” is for them, and why and how this process takes place—is it a return or just a “moving around” in global space?—this paper presents the results of a field investigation carried out in the summer of 2005, along with the theoretical perspectives and academic sources used. Anthropological methods, such as participant observation, observation, and open question qualitative interviews, allow us to hear the informants’s words “live” articulated in the key concepts they themselves use in order that we may understand from their own perspective what the real experience of those “returning” is like.