Sara Le Menestrel

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			chargée de recherches at the CNRS (33) 1 53 63 51 91

Sara Le Menestrel is an ethnologist, chargée de recherches at the CNRS. She has worked on cultural tourism and the construction of identities. She published on Cajuns and tourism (La voie des Cadiens. Tourisme et identité en Louisiane, Paris, Belin, Collection « Cultures américaines », 1999), and on Louisiana (with Jacques Henry, Working The Field. Accounts from French Louisiana, Westport, Praeger, 2003). She currently works on the social uses of so-called “popular” music, in France (with Kali Argyriadis Vivre la guinguette, Paris, P.U.F., Collection « Sociologie d’aujourd’hui », 2003) and in Louisiana (with special attention to the color line and social divisions between Cajuns and Creoles). The research project she's heading on the topic has been selected for funding by the Agence nationale de la recherche.

Since October 2005, she is also active in a study, co-sponsored by the Sociology and Anthropology Department of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, on the people who had to leave their homes because of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and on the factors weighing on their decision to return or move elsewhere.

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