Social Isolation of the French Speaking People of Rural Louisiana

Gilmore, Harlan W.

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“…The French settlers remained separate due to several factors: language, solitary occupations, a working-class heritage, and Catholicism (Clarke 1985;Gramling, Forsyth and Mooney 1987;Mooney, Gramling and Forsyth 1991). Indeed, it is only since the 1940s that cultural intrusion began to occur (Gilmore 1933(Gilmore ,1936Parenton 1938;Smith and Parenton 1938).…”

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Thrills and skills: A sociological analysis of poaching

Forsyth

Marckese

1993

Deviant Behavior

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Thrills and skills: A sociological analysis of poaching

Forsyth

Marckese

1993

Deviant Behavior

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“…Whether isolation was a conscious decision or an environmentally determined trap, within the literature on Cajuns, the trope is dominant. Nearly all geographies, histories, and cultural studies suggest that Cajuns flourished due in some part to isolation, including Harry Gilmore (), Walter Kollmorgen and Robert Harrison (), John Western (), Dorice Tentchoff (), and Marjorie Esman (). Malcolm Comeaux's influential cultural geography of the Atchafalaya Basin begins by claiming that early settlers “cared little for the outside world” (1972, foreword).…”

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Reliving off The Swamp: A Cajun Tourism Commodity

Keul

2014

Geographical Review

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ABSTRACT. The development of ethnic tourism involves a process of community-and individual-level objectification and commodification. To be attractive to outsiders, planners and tourism professionals often present local lifeways as unique and local while and contrasting them to an external globalized world. Using a political economic approach, this paper shows that this process of self-commodification may give tourism professionals some control over how ethnic cultures are is presented, but does so within the parameters of state oversight and consumers' desires. A case study of Louisiana Cajun tourism reveals how a specific narrative of swamp subsistence is deployed by individual tour guides and through the tourism planning process. This "heritage ecology" is used to romanticize a Cajun cultural ecology as "living off of the swamp" despite the fact that swamp commodities have almost always been produced for external markets. Similar to past commodities, swamp tourism still involves the production of Cajunswamp culture for outside consumers. This type of tourism paradoxically presents the image of a physically and socially disconnected ethnic group by fostering connections with outsiders while in the swamp.

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The Acadian French in Canada and in Louisiana

Gould

1941

American J Phys Anthropol

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Social Isolation of the French Speaking People of Rural Louisiana

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Thrills and skills: A sociological analysis of poaching

Thrills and skills: A sociological analysis of poaching

Reliving off The Swamp: A Cajun Tourism Commodity

The Acadian French in Canada and in Louisiana

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