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The term popular music comprises a range of meanings that are as diverse as they are contradictory. The term may refer to urban music or rural, sacred or secular, folk or modern, depending on the perspective of those using it. Because of this polysemy, conceptions of music as popular can contribute to a degree of antagonism between different populations. In this issue, the contributors have placed this term under a critical analysis, in order to bring to light the manipulations to which it is subject. Adapted from the source document.

These past few years in Southwestern Louisiana, many artists and intellectuals have increasingly tried to emphasize the close collaborations and exchanges between Cajuns and Creoles within French music. Albeit inclusive, this representation of local music persist alongside social divisions and diasporic identities, while at the same time combining them with other relevant identity-building criteria. The color line appears through musical categories which have prevailed since the second half of the 20th century and which have shaped the present judgements on music. These divisions are also based on internal social hierarchies given the multiple facets of Louisiana Creole identities. Nonetheless, Cajuns and Creoles share a strong sense of place combined with an appeal for commercial success which points to a strategy of recognition. Adapted from the source document.

Résumé À partir de l'expérience de ceux qui visitent le « pays cadien », en Louisiane, est remis en question l'antagonisme souvent établi entre voyageurs et autochtone. Les appréciations que les touristes portent sur leur séjour en Louisiane révèlent l'ambivalence de leur relation à l'exotisme. Leurs perceptions et leurs comportements mettent également en lumière la dimension ludique de l'expérience touristique, car celle-ci s'inscrit dans un jeu d'illusion réciproque privilégiant un mode humoristique dont les Cadiens font usage à des fins de reconnaissance.

Résumé La figure du « survivor » est omniprésente dans les récits des évacués des ouragans Katrina et Rita qui ont ravagé la Louisiane en 2005. Revendiquée par tous, elle est réappropriée par les Cadiens du Sud-Ouest et construite sur une série d'oppositions stigmatisantes entre urbains et ruraux, qui la distinguent de la figure du « vulnérable », assignée à la population noire pauvre de La Nouvelle-Orléans. Cet article explore les usages politiques et la gestion de la catastrophe en analysant les enjeux que recouvre cette figure du survivor . Les Cadiens l'inscrivent dans la continuité de leur mémoire historique, réaffirmant leur résistance contre l'adversité ; la population noire pauvre de La Nouvelle-Orléans y trouve un moyen de contrer la stigmatisation dont elle est l'objet et d'affirmer sa citoyenneté remise en cause.

Anthropological inquiry developed around the study of the exotic. Now that we live in a world that seems increasingly familiar, putatively marked by a spreading sameness, anthropology must re-envision itself. The emergence of diverse national traditions in the discipline offers one intriguing path. This volume, the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States, explores the possibilities of that path through an experiment in the reciprocal production of knowledge. Simultaneously native subjects, foreign experts, and colleagues, these scholars offer novel insights into each other's societies, juxtaposing glimpses of ourselves and a familiar "others" to productively unsettle and enrich our understanding of both