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The Village Fete By observing local fetes in Mayenne the author was able to ascertain the effects of the transformations which have taken place in the world of the peasants. The change from the village fete, in which ail the inhabitants participate, to the communal fete, which, with its distinction between actors and spectators, is more like a show, can be correlated with the spread within the peasant milieu of the townsman's image of the peasantry. The organization of 'fetes a l'ancienne', in which the peasants are encouraged to play themselves, is doubtless an extreme case. All the same, the mixture of serious and burlesque in the sketches that the peasants present of their way of life reveals the ambiguity of a situation in which they do not always know if they are playing at being themselves or at being someone else. They have been deprived of a hold on the social definition of their identity, and it is almost always from others that they receive the definition of what they ought to be. Through these fetes, then, the peasants return, as it were, to their origins ; are they not seeking in this way to recover a social identity of their own ?

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