approprier

Non seulement de ce qu'il s'est approprié pour lui-même, mais de ce qu'il a approprié : propriété commune dont il s'est nourri, qu'il a intégrée comme une ressource de son identité.
Not only what he has appropriated for himself, but what he has appropriated: collective property which he has used to feed himself and which he has made a part of his identity.
L'homme tire une partie de son identité de ce qu'il a approprié : on ne peut expliquer le cultivateur sans son champ, ni le nomade sans son troupeau ; mais on ne peut pas non plus les réduire à ces possessions.
Man takes part of his identity from what he has appropriated: a farmer cannot be explained without his field or a nomad without his herd, but they can also not be defined only in terms of their possessions.
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