Class and Identity on the Margins of Industrial Society: A Breton Illustration

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  • Charles R. Menzies University of British Columbia

Abstract

In this article the author draws upon his field work in Le Guilvinec, France during a period of crisis in the local fishery to explore the creation and reproduction of a local Bigouden identity. This identity emerged, replete with costume, rituals and festivals, out of an encounter between a metropolitan-driven industrial capitalism and a local, essentially non-capitalist, social formation. Here two aspects of how the "local" is integrated into and/or articulated with the "larger" are important: (1) the historical positioning of the Bigoudennie within Brittany, an internal hinterland of France supplying labour and raw resources; (2) the ways in which the emerging neoliberal processes of globalization structures, shapes and hinders the ability of local communities to wield any real control over local processes.

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Charles R. Menzies, University of British Columbia

Charles R. Menzies is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the City University of New York. His work encompasses ethnographic research on the north west coast of North America and coastal Brittany in which themes of identity and social class have been an underlying point of concern.

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2022-06-07

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Menzies, C. R. (2022). Class and Identity on the Margins of Industrial Society: A Breton Illustration. Anthropologica, 39(1-2), 27–38. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2049

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Vol. 39 No. 1-2 (1997)

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