| Titre | La cueillette, pratique économique et pratique symbolique | |
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| Auteur | Jean-Louis Coujard | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 87, 1982 La chasse et la cueillette aujourd'hui | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Pratiques sociales |
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| Page | 261-266 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Economic practice, symbolic practice : The Case of Gathering
As agriculture becomes an increasingly converter of energetic and chemical inputs into food outputs, gathering remains one of the last ways of direct picking on nature. Gathering is not only a gesture, but mostly a practice of which place and significance are defined by an historical form of social relationships. Contributing to content life needs of societies or social groups, it consists in an economic practice that may be characterized as a form of available ressources appropriation. Such a form is related to production of relationships. Besides, gathering of wild plants becomes more and more an entertaining activity for citizens : so it appears as a symbolic practice. However, these two aspects,economic and symbolic, may not be separated : they penetrate each other and are both present in every actual behabiour of gathering as shown by local studies. 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_2888 |
