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This thesis examines the diverse and conflicting ways in which the past is invoked in a village in the coastal area of the Aude department, in the Languedoc region of Southern France. The region of Languedoc has been undergoing turbulent, and unpredictable socio- economic change since the development of viticultural capitalism in the 19th century, and since the 1960s has also witnessed the development of a sizeable tourist industry. These factors, along with the proximity of the village to the city of Narbonne, have led over the past 150 years to the creation of a heterogeneous village population. The thesis details the plurality of ways in which the past was temporalised in the village during the fieldwork period (1996-7), taking account of the various social groups present in the village, and their economic activities and life worlds. It also illustrates the relationship between local temporalities and wider socio-economic developments in the region, in particular in relation to the development of a tourist industry that transforms the past into a commodity. The thesis is partly concerned to assess the relationship between these wider socio-economic developments, and the sociality of the village inhabitants. Drawing on recent anthropological work on time, human temporality is viewed as the product of symbolic processes, through which agents make evident, and act upon, the inherently temporal character of existence. In this sense the apprehension and significance of the past is implicated in a dynamic with present action and future orientations, and interpreted accordingly. However, a 'culturalist' perspective is avoided in the thesis by foregrounding the importance of interpreting all human activity as both historically situated, and implicated in wider political economic processes. In this respect, the thesis also pays attention to issues of political economy, and attempts a partial synthesis of different anthropological approaches: the phenomenological, the symbolic, and the materialist.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T22:02:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 24 / Nenhuma / A dissertação objetiva investigar e analisar o projeto de responsabilidade social empresarial – “Prato Popular”, que é desenvolvido pelo Grupo Gerdau, SESI e Prefeitura Municipal de Sapucaia do Sul, a fim de demonstrar se ele é um gerador de mudança sócio-econômica em seus usuários. Também busca conhecer as impressões dos envolvidos no projeto, para uma avaliação do funcionamento do projeto à luz dos discursos sobre responsabilidade social. É apresentada uma trajetória da questão social Brasileira, demonstrando o papel do Estado, as novas alternativas de organização da sociedade civil e das corporações empresariais. O trabalho também realiza um debate sobre a produção ou não de mudanças sócio-econômica nas pessoas que se beneficiam das ações sociais oriundas dos investimentos sociais empresariais, que são colocados sobre a suspeita de ter um espírito de solidariedade ou um simples interesse econômico. Foi realizada pesquisa empírica no projeto social “Prato Popular”, localizado em Sapucaia do Sul, através de / This paper has as objective to research and analyze the project of business social responsibility – “Prato Popular”, which is developed by Gerdau Group, SESI and Prefeitura Municipal de Sapucaia do Sul, in order to show if it is a generator of socio-economic change in its users. It tries also to find out the impressions of those involved in the project, to an evaluation of the project operation related to the speech about social responsibility. It is presented a trajectory concerning the Brazilian social matter, showing the State roles, the new alternatives of organization of the civil society and of the business corporations. This paper also holds a debate about the production or not of socio-economic changes in those people who benefits from the social actions leaded to business social investments which are on suspicion of having a solidarity concern or just economic interest. An empirical research was made in the social project “Prato Popular”, located in Sapucaia do Sul, through an interview to have a sa