| Titre | L'herbe violente. Enquête ethnobotanique en pays brionnais | |
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| Auteur | Bernadette Lizet | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 129-130, 1993 Sauvage et domestique | |
| Page | 129-146 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Violent Grass. Ethnobotanic Survey in the Brionne Area
With its bocages and verdant hills, the Brionne area in Eure Department has been designated as a "natural agricultural region". This ethnological survey was motivated by an odd local phrase, pré violent (violent meadow). How can "violent" qualify an apparently gentle pastoral landscape with quite regular patterns ? In this area, inhabitants fatten up for the slaughterhouse Charolais cattle bred and raised elsewhere. This very special occupation is performed by emboucheurs. The latter' s social and occupational strategy, which takes the most advantage of variations in local soils, is based on the "violent meadows". This vernacular phrase refers to something other than a piece of land which serves as the economic basis for this activity. It synthesizes the occupational culture and expresses the elite social status of a group that came into existence during the 19th century. Nowadays, this group of specialists at the end of the stockbreeding process is undergoing a crisis. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1993_num_129_1_3408 |
