hunter is the prototype of alpine mankind and possesses an exemplary function greater than that of all other alpine dwellers. He reveals mentally to the cultural elite the alpine zone by showing that one can survive there. At the same time he preserves the mystery of this region by passing on traditional fears of the upper alpine regions in addition to the new ones experienced by the cultural elite with regard to the Alps.
ANNE-MARIE GRANET-ABISSET, "TRADE AND CULTURE, OR ORGANIZED MOBILITY. THE EXAMPLE OF QUEYRAS IN THE 19TH CENTURY"
In Queyras, an apparently, by nature and its border, isolated mountain valley in the Southern Alps, there had been, for a very long time, a busy coming and going. As in neighbouring Briançonnais, migration enjoys here a tradition throughout centuries. Scholars and historians, of course, have ascribed such departure to despair, or at least to necessity, the which was registered by individual and collective memory. If, however, one pursues the migratory movements by means of family histories that have produced and activated them, there is revealed an extremely effective organization of mobility. By means of the esteem enjoyed by trade and schooling - astonishing for a community made out to be mountain peasant-like and on the poor side - families and kinship networks turn apprenticeship into a principal item of upbringing, which enables one to master the prevalent pluriactivity. By means of the investigation of these essential migration factors the realities of alpine societies can thus be deciphered anew in its full complexity.
VINCENC RAJSP, "ON POPULATION DEVELOPMENT IN THE JULIAN ALPS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE 'ISONZO ROUTE'"
This contribution deals with the demographic development since the second half of the 19th century in the western alpine region of Slovenia, that is the Trenta and Koritnica valleys as far as the Slovene-Italian state border. For this period decreasing population figures are typical. The main reasons for
