| Titre | La démocratie impossible. Parenté et politique dans un village lorrain | |
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| Auteur | Claude Karnoouh | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 52, 1973 | |
| Page | 24-56 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Impossible Democracy: Kinship and Politics in a Lorrainese Village.
This article, based on field work begun in 1968, examines various aspects of the political life of a Lorrainese village and emphasizes the important role played by kinship in municipal activities. After defining the term "Politics", the author explains and criticizes the three theoretical approaches used by sociologists and ethnologists to study the relations between peasant communities and the states that control them. He goes on to justify his choice of the hypothesis of latent or patent discontinuity as opposed to that of a priori or a posteriori continuity. Before analyzing village political systems in order to define different native models of local power, the author summarizes the "back-to-back" situation of the Nation and the French village in general. He then describes the particular village on which this study is based, focussing on the pre-electoral period and on the contrast between the village as presented to the outside world: a quiet, unanimous community, and the village as seen from within: political faction vying for power. The next part of the article is devoted to an analysis of the "family" or kindred, its composition, its influence, its action, and makes clear the important political role played by kinship. Village endogamy and strategical marriages are means of increasing political ties among kindred. The family, however, is not only a complex network of power relations but also the semantic code in terms of which the villagers elaborate their political concepts. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1973_num_52_1_1910 |
