«Regardez si ça germe et si ça pousse!». Le processus de re-«paysannisation» des zones rouges du front occidental après la Grande Guerre
'See whether this sprouts and grows!'. The Process of Re-'Peasantization' of Red Zones of the Occidental Line after the Great War
Author(s): Chantal Dhennin-LalartContributor(s): Kathleen Laraia Mclaughlin (Photographer)
Subject(s): Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, Social history
Published by: Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Editura Martor
Keywords: Great War; hay and semi-natural meadows; local knowledge; agriculture; heritage;
Summary/Abstract: World War I has destroyed within four years everything that the ancestral patience of cultivators had been building during millenniums of peasant labour. These traces are mostly visible on the occidental part of the ancient German-British front. More than elsewhere, the war enterprises have devastated the semi-natural territories and the cultivated ones in the region. The fact is certificated by the testimonials of rural people, by archive studies and by a part of the region’s literature which has tackled the subject, especially Le fardeau des jours by Leon Boquet (1924, Paris, Albin Michel).
Journal: Martor. Revue d’Anthropologie du Musée du Paysan Roumain
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 24-36
- Page Count: 13
- Language: French