Les genres de vie en Corse et leur évolution

The origins of academic work on tourism: a European perspective

“…In France, in the first decades of the 20 th century, the institutional basis of geographical research on tourism (however limited mainly to the mountainous areas of the Alps and the nearby Cote d'Azur, including Corsica) was the Institute of Alpine Geography (Institut de géographie alpine), established in Grenoble in 1907, as well as the "Revue de géographie alpine" -a journal published from 1913. Their founder was an outstanding geographer, Raoul Blanchard (1877Blanchard ( -1965, whose interests included tourism and he devoted many publications to it, superseding, in a way, formal tourism studies (Blanchard, 1911(Blanchard, , 1914(Blanchard, , 1919. Before World War I, specialist guidebooks and journals appeared, intended for those specialising in some forms of tourism, e.g.…”

“…¹4 However, many earlier works by Blanchard (1911Blanchard ( , 1914) can be qualified as formal tourism studies.…”

Conceptual issues in environmental archaeology

“…A definition of genre de vie which is either extremely broad or excessively narrow contrives a (pre)history on the one hand practically static, on the other fragmented and lacking in comparability. Thus, to choose from the genres de vie of Corsica distinguished by Vidalian geographer R. Blanchard (1914), the transhumant pastoral genre of the mid-montane zone appears reasonable enough within a time-depth of ca. 50 years, but if extrapolated, as some prehistorians and others would allow, to the terminus a quo of evidence for the husbandry of domestic animals in Corsica (Lewthwaite 1983a(Lewthwaite , 1985a(Lewthwaite ,b, 1986Ravis-Giordani 1975;Vigne 1983Vigne , 1984Weiss and Lanfranchi 1976) would imply a continuity over nearly eight millennia (perhaps nine with calibration).…”

Conceptual issues in environmental archaeology

“…Thus, to choose from the genres de vie of Corsica distinguished by Vidalian geographer R. Blanchard (1914), the transhumant pastoral genre of the mid-montane zone appears reasonable enough within a time-depth of ca. 50 years, but if extrapolated, as some prehistorians and others would allow, to the terminus a quo of evidence for the husbandry of domestic animals in Corsica (Lewthwaite 1983a(Lewthwaite , 1985a(Lewthwaite ,b, 1986Ravis-Giordani 1975;Vigne 1983Vigne , 1984Weiss and Lanfranchi 1976) would imply a continuity over nearly eight millennia (perhaps nine with calibration).…”

“…50 years, but if extrapolated, as some prehistorians and others would allow, to the terminus a quo of evidence for the husbandry of domestic animals in Corsica (Lewthwaite 1983a(Lewthwaite , 1985a(Lewthwaite ,b, 1986Ravis-Giordani 1975;Vigne 1983Vigne , 1984Weiss and Lanfranchi 1976) would imply a continuity over nearly eight millennia (perhaps nine with calibration). In effect, the lack of expression of such undifferentiated labels needlessly prolongs the mutually conditioning circular reasoning which has obtained among archaeologists, historians and geographers in Corsica, as more generally in the Mediterranean; appearing to confirm a geographical determinism all the more ironic since Blanchard emphasises the historical contingency of this way of life and the very rapidity of its decline (or transformation) under the impact of circulation (Blanchard 1914;Lewthwaite 1981Lewthwaite , 1985b. As an example of the opposite tendency, one might point to the specificity of the way of life of the Castagniccia, synonymous with the culture of the chestnut, which reached its developmental zenith at the end of the nineteenth century from an origin of unknown antiquity, but one at any rate unlikely to predate the Early Middle Ages (Lücke 1976).…”