"You Get Sawdust in Your Blood": "Local" Values and the Performance of Community in an Occupational Sport

Abstract

Abstract The conflicts and affiliations that produce and define community can often be seen most clearly in performance. This article examines the way group identity is constructed around a multifaceted notion of localness at a woodchopping competition in northwestern Connecticut. As the immediate connection to logging as an occupation fades, community identity is enacted at a referential level defined here as a metaperformance-in this case a celebration engaged in by men and women, primarily from other trades, who nonetheless mobilize notions of logging tradition and history to enact a ulocaly) community with resonance in their suburban, postindustrial context.

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