| Titre | Une perspective infinie. La mer, le rivage et la terre à La Hague (Presqu'île du Cotentin) | |
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| Auteur | Françoise Zonabend | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 93-94, 1984 L'eau | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Les hommes et l'eau Imaginaire de l'eau |
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| Page | 163-178 | |
| Résumé anglais |
An Infinite Perspective. Sea, Coast, and Land at La Hague
A peninsula is a hybrid territory, neither completely at sea nor completely joined with the land. This paper analyses the relationship between these two elements — land and sea — at the Hague, a region located in the extreme North- Western part of Cotentin, in Southern Normandy (France). At first glance, the lower, inhabited and cultivated part of the peninsula, that associated with the land, contrasts with the deserted and apparently little or badly exploited coastal area, the latter being prolonged by an extremely dangerous sea in which large-scale fishing has been unable to develop. However, this domination of the land-linked side is but an apparent one. The wild coast is highly important both for sociability and gardening. As for the sea, it appears in legends to be composed of different more or less well known territories each of which constitutes a distinct universe open to the imagination.
These ways of «living» and «thinking» the coast and the sea have fashioned the representations and mental attitudes of the people of the Hague whose singularity within the Normandy region has always been remarked upon. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1984_num_93_1_2996 |
