| Titre | La chasse à la palombe dans la lande | |
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| Auteur | Bernard Traimond | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 87, 1982 La chasse et la cueillette aujourd'hui | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Gibiers et cueillettes |
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| Page | 97-107 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Wood-Pigeon Hunting in the Moors of South-West France
The burning of palombières (the cabins where hunters, after setting out decoys, await the flights of wood-pigeons which they then shoot or catch in nets) is a fairly frequent occurrence in the Landes, where they are the focus of several important aspects of local-society. Located on the sites of former palombières and built by the men who use them, the cabins enable their builders to reconstitute houses which communicate with the sky and with the birds that are called dow by «singing». Thus they become the theatre of a variety of conflicts. They may be burned to the ground in order to get rid of a city lawyer, to attack a counter-revolutionary or to prevent a hunting ground from being rented out. Guns are fired off to frighten pigeons away as a result of political disagreements or personal enmity. The role of wood-pigeon hunting in the life of the hunters is consequently so important that it has become an essential expression of a regional identity that has been proclaimed and defended fiercely for decades. 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_2874 |
