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This article analyses the symbolic economy of autochthony capital, i.e. the struggles to define the legitimate forms of belonging to a space of mutual acquaintance. By looking at a fair in a periurban village, it traces the revalorisation of commercial activity as a symbol of the life of the territory – in the face of the marginalisation of agricultural networks – and the differential appropriation of the profits of autochthony by traders. By linking together the capital of autochthony and the space of mutual acquaintance, it thus seeks to reconstruct the differential valorisation of this capital according to the socio-spatial configurations and to highlight small differences in allocation beyond the opposition between outsiders and established.