In Search of the Occitan Village: Regionalist Ideologies and the Ethnography of Southern France

Mark, Vera

doi:10.2307/3317996

Anthropological Quarterly

1987

DOI: 10.2307/3317996

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In Search of the Occitan Village: Regionalist Ideologies and the Ethnography of Southern France

Vera Mark¹

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“…Like colonial peoples, in the nineteenth century Bretons were denigrated by some state committees as ‘uncultivated’ savages who might be dangerous, and romanticized by others as noble ‘primitives’ (McDonald : 46). In part thanks to the romantic nationalist discourse about the return to regional terroir , there is more institutional support for regional languages and regional identities, which have largely been incorporated into the notion of Frenchness – scholars of rural French regions illustrate how national incorporation of regions and the strengthening of claims to distinct regional identities go hand in hand (McDonald ; Mark ; Reed‐Danahay ). This extent of national incorporation has never been true for colonized peoples, and those born in France to immigrants from former colonies continue to have their Frenchness questioned (Guénif‐Souilamas ; Keaton ; Mbembe ).…”

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‘All daughters and sons of the Republic’? Producing difference in French education

Kleinman

2016

J R Anthropol Inst

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Anthropological focus on public sphere debates can have the unintended consequence of reaffirming ideological oppositions ('secularism versus Islam') while ignoring other processes of difference production. In this article, I examine how French school employees build a logic of cultural otherness in an arena of uncertain social reproduction. Contrary to analyses of the French public sphere that emphasize the ideology of secular universalism, I argue that this dominant ideology has little purchase in the thick of social relations in a peripheral school. Faced with neoliberal transformations and diminishing resources, teachers draw instead on diverse discourses that have the effect of producing cultural difference. Through this process, immigrant-origin students are presented as incommensurable with Frenchness, and Frenchness becomes rooted in family structure and territory. This case illustrates how state actors confront the contradictions that inhabit universal citizenship and reconfigure the project of Republican schooling.

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‘All daughters and sons of the Republic’? Producing difference in French education

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2016

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Text, Topos, and the Awareness of History in Frédéric Mistral’s Poème du Rhône

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2019

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In his Voyage à Bourg-Saint-Andéol (1886), Albin Mazon laments the sad state of the antique Mithras bas-relief near the sources of the Tourne (Ardèche). Its once idyllic enclosure has been destroyed by the construction of a rail road and the relief itself has become indecipherable. Mazon's Voyage presents a provincial historiography in which narratives, lexicographic and semantic divagations and museal interests join in an endeavour to decipher the past as a lexis that had become increasingly incomprehensible in the changing cultural and socio-economical landscape of modernity. Indecipherability and the railroad, enclosure versus expanding networks of mobility went side by side. Mazon's Voyage figures as a primary source in Frederic Mistral's Poème du Rhône (1896). With Mistral, the Mithras bas-relief becomes however decipherable in various ways. It will be argued, against the background of Mistral's anti-modern recuperation of the past, his ideal of a premodern, rural domesticity versus the new, abstract citoyenneté, and his topological and lexicographic interests, how this recuperation relates with elements, in the Poème, of an anti-modern past that constitutes an eschatological promise for the future and symbolises "la dilection unique et primitive/ d'un monde neuf et brillant de jeunesse!"

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Identity and History: Class and Regional Consciousness in Rural Languedoc

Lem¹

1995

J Historical Sociology

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The history of the peasants of Languedoc has been marked by continual struggles to defend a livelihood against the combined forces of capitalist development and state integration. Constant references to this history of contentiousness in popular representations of the past have been critical in the emergence of a culture of opposition among the Languedoc peasantry. This paper explores the relationship between historical consciousness. identity construction and expressions of resistance in class and regionalist ideologies of political struggle in rural southern France.

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In Search of the Occitan Village: Regionalist Ideologies and the Ethnography of Southern France

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‘All daughters and sons of the Republic’? Producing difference in French education

‘All daughters and sons of the Republic’? Producing difference in French education

Text, Topos, and the Awareness of History in Frédéric Mistral’s Poème du Rhône

Identity and History: Class and Regional Consciousness in Rural Languedoc

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