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International audience ; Violeta Parra's course of life, a quite singular and original one, has been the inspiration of her tremendous musical and poetic work. Investigator and artist of many talents, Chilean folklore was her whole life. With her strong temper and willingness, she contributed in a brilliant way to give back to Chilean folklore its authenticity, projecting it on front of the national as well as the international scene, giving it a visibility it had never had before. Becoming famous all over the world, she reached universality through art and trough the particularity of the Chilean region, preparing the cultural and political changes that Chile would experience at the end of the sixties. ; Parcours singulier et original, la vie de Violeta Parra est bien la source d'inspiration de son immense oeuvre musicale et poétique. Chercheuse et artiste aux multiples talents, le folklore chilien a été toute sa vie. Forte d'une terrible volonté, elle a contribué de façon magistrale à rendre au folklore chilien son authenticité et à lui procurer une visibilité en tant que tel aussi bien sur la scène nationale qu'internationale. Connue à travers le monde, elle est parvenue à travers l'art à rendre universelle une particularité qui n'était que régionale, préparant ainsi le tournant culturel et politique que connaît le Chili à la fin des années soixante.

International audience ; Violeta Parra's course of life, a quite singular and original one, has been the inspiration of her tremendous musical and poetic work. Investigator and artist of many talents, Chilean folklore was her whole life. With her strong temper and willingness, she contributed in a brilliant way to give back to Chilean folklore its authenticity, projecting it on front of the national as well as the international scene, giving it a visibility it had never had before. Becoming famous all over the world, she reached universality through art and trough the particularity of the Chilean region, preparing the cultural and political changes that Chile would experience at the end of the sixties. ; Parcours singulier et original, la vie de Violeta Parra est bien la source d'inspiration de son immense oeuvre musicale et poétique. Chercheuse et artiste aux multiples talents, le folklore chilien a été toute sa vie. Forte d'une terrible volonté, elle a contribué de façon magistrale à rendre au folklore chilien son authenticité et à lui procurer une visibilité en tant que tel aussi bien sur la scène nationale qu'internationale. Connue à travers le monde, elle est parvenue à travers l'art à rendre universelle une particularité qui n'était que régionale, préparant ainsi le tournant culturel et politique que connaît le Chili à la fin des années soixante.

For about ten years now, scholars have been trying to find the equivalent of central Italy's local industrial systems in France. Observations in France by the author and his colleagues serve to analyze how such systems work. Collective identity seems fundamental. It is not so important whether or not it is local : nonlocalized professional systems in a small territory may work in the same way — one based on social exchanges that are more far-reaching and flexible than economic transactions alone. What is given in return is not given immediately ; and the specific endebted person is not pointed out, since the whole community is responsible for seeing to it that the implicit social rules are followed that guarantee its survival.

A Counterfactual Collective Identity. Montolieu as « village du livre et des arts graphiques »
Mohammad-Saïd Darviche
When, at the beginning of the 1990s, a small commune in Aude (Montolieu) began to apply the concept, already tested in Northern Europe, of a « book town », it's people found themselves engaged in a reflexive process of identity reconstruction. Indeed, faced with the introduction of professional and amateur newcomers, but also due to the commitment of part of the local population and their representatives, a collective mobilization took form which engendered a new vision that was sufficiently credible to reformat the village's identity. This identity is « counterfactual » because its legitimacy and structuring effects stem not from the past, but from an anticipation of a future that local people hope will be a better.