職業として地域アイデンティティづくりを担う人びとの意識 : フランス地域自然公園の「公園の家」で働く人びとに対する聞き取り調査から

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This paper will examine "new operators of heritages" (nouveaux operateurs du patrimoine), who have appeared gradually with the increase in popularity of heritages since the 1960s. In particular, we will argue that an occupational or professional group is one of the various types of current cultural operators whose purpose is "to work" for the protection and operational use of patrimoine. We will focus specifically on the professional or technical group "House of Park" (Maison du Pare) in Natural Regional Park in France and begin to describe its dynamic and important activities. Based on staff interviews, this paper will then analyze the significance of group members who protect their heritage or the meaning of the practical activities they conducted from the viewpoint of their daily lives. This will ultimately lead to a discovery of the characteristics of the staff, who, optimizing their professional skills, participate in the protection of the park as a heritage and simultaneously utilize it for the region and to earn their living. The unique objective of this finding is to analyze cultural operators not only as people motivated by "passion for heritages," as in the case of some former studies of voluntary associations, but also as those motivated by "passion for their work."-