| Titre | Deux saisons en grivière. De la tradition au délit de tradition | |
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| Auteur | Jean Jamin | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 87, 1982 La chasse et la cueillette aujourd'hui | |
| Page | 41-62 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Two Seasons in Thrush Catching Country : From Tradition to Traditional Misdemeanors
Neither a hunting territory nor a picking corner, the thrush ground (grivière) nevertheless has something of both geographies : the extensiveness and outwardness of the one, the covertness of the other. It would make an ideal poaching ground if a ministerial decree passed in. 1978 had not regulated the activities defining it. Thrush snaring is practiced by old men in blue work clothes picking and gathering on Automn mornings. The birds are caught to be eaten and given away as food. The rusticity of the method used (horsehair gins placed on the ground or in trees) indicates the ancientness if not the archaism of this practice which is naturally discrete, individual or at the most familial, though it has never been as tranquil as a legitimate tradition or as tolerated as a surviving custom. Thrush grounds have always been filled with sound and fury : hunters, authorities and ecologists have tried to limit and even to put an end to thrush snaring rights. The thrush grounds in the Ardennes have thus become the scene of social and political confrontations and, in the interim between two seasons, a snare for thought. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1982_num_87_1_2871 |
