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This article explores the complex relationship between peasant communities and the relatively new technology of photography in the Béarn region of France. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the late 1950s, the authors, Pierre and Marie-Claire Bourdieu, analyze how peasants utilize and perceive photography, not as a neutral tool, but as a social practice embedded within existing power structures and cultural norms. The study reveals how photographs are used to commemorate important life events, reinforce social hierarchies, and project an idealized image of rural life, often masking the underlying realities of poverty and social change. The authors argue that the adoption of photography by peasants is not simply a passive acceptance of a modern technology, but rather a selective and strategic appropriation that reflects and reinforces existing social relations and cultural values. The article also touches upon the symbolic significance of photography in relation to traditional forms of representation and memory within peasant society.

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