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In spite of significant gains made over the last few years, the study revealed considerably slower development in matters of education in the Inuit living in Northern Quebec, when compared to the prevailing situation in the rest of the province and to Canadian aboriginals as a whole. The economy remains heavily dependent on government transfer payments, as well as on employment in the public and parapublic sectors. Finally, a relatively large segment of the Inuit population that lives in the area surrounding the future development site would be interested in working on the Great Whale hydroelectric project.
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Beginning with an ethnography of the transmission of the watch making trade carried on in various vocational schools in Switzerland's Jura Arc, this article involves a critical review of the “intangible cultural heritage” paradigm and the ambition to conserve “traditional know-how” such as outlined in the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003). The description of characteristics belonging to vocational training and the way in which actors who practise it qualify what is a watch making skill makes it possible first to show that the Convention cannot constitute an operant of transfer in terms of watch making expertise. Secondly, It is appropriate to mention that the image of transfer which the Convention highlights is anthropocentric and that the learning dynamics of the trade invalidate it in the educational context. In fact, they make gestuality and watch making techniques into important transfer operants. Finally, the author shows that the distinction between the teaching paradigm (based on the necessity of transparency) and the initiatory paradigm (honouring the secrets) does not enable the classifying of the training in watch making schools. The passing on of skills in watch making is also at work in the practices of concealing/revealing without the necessity of always making the knowledge explicit. This strongly contradicts the principle of conservation embodied in the Convention.
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In this historiographic account, the author distinguishes between two different voices in the development of folklore as a discipline in Québec. Since the beginning of folklore studies in 19th century thinking, researchers have divided in two camps: exponents of oral tradition (seen as a heritage on its way to extinction), and exponents of material culture. This divergence can be seen in the work of Edouard Massicotte, Marius Barbeau, J.M. Gauvreau and Robert-Lionel Séguin. With the work of Luc Lacourcière, folklore began to be seen as an indivisible whole. Looking at the careers of the main figures in the discipline, the author shows how their perspectives eventually meet in a new approach.
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The Social and United Economy (SUE) sector marks a great convergence with territorial development approaches that are part of endogenous economic development. It places the issues of territorialization, the creation of added value and the development of territorial resources at the heart of its project. In this light, our study aims to analyze the weight of SSE promotion plans in the policies of local public actors through a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews with the various local actors—public and private—of a underprivileged region in Morocco (Drâa-Tafilalet). Some avenues that could help to develop and promote the SSE sector in Morocco in a perspective of sustainable territorial development are also presented.