| Titre | Ceux qui peinent et ceux qui prennent. La mythologie du travail dans une société d'horticulteurs (Nouvelle-Bretagne) | |
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| Auteur | Monique Jeudy-Ballini | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 103-104, 1986 Droit et paysans | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Études et recherches |
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| Page | 159-187 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Those who Work and those who Take. Mythology of Work in an Horticulturist Society (New Britain)
This article analyses the ideas of work which are conveyed through the oral literature of the Sulka people of New Britain. First, it shows that the opposition between the traditional activities denned as "work" and those which are denied this name by the Sulkas refers to the opposition between horticulture and predation. Then it shows that what enables this opposition to be apprehended is the referential value of fertility. This fact is related to the conception underlying the daily social practices according to which the fitness to work proceeds from the fitness to procreate — fertility being supposed to express the agreement of the ancestral spirits. It follows that the notion of work cannot be grasped in merely economic terms and that its definition, for the Sulkas, essentially means a way of thinking the cosmological relationship between the living and the dead. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1986_num_103_1_3161 |
