Basque Culture: Anthropological Perspectives

by William Douglass, Joseba Zulaika

Overview

This book incorporates class notes with additional materials of the two authors compiled over several decades. It presents an overview of Basque prehistory linguistics and anthropology of society and culture. It is illustrated in part by their personal experiences in field research. The co-authors William A. Douglass and Joseba Zulaika have both served as directors of the Center for Basque Studies of the University of Nevada Reno and have co-published on occasion. This volume is a textbook intended both for the classroom and in on-line instruction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781877802645
Publisher:	Center for Basque Studies Press
Publication date:	11/15/2007
Series:	Basque Textbooks
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	530
Product dimensions:	5.53(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.34(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction     7
Defining the Basques
Basque Anthropology     12
Situating the Basques: Physical and Human Geography     21
Prehistoric Enigmas     31
Euskara     41
Prehistoric Art     49
Basque History
Romanization     65
The Middle Ages     76
The Modern Era     96
Basque Nationalism     116
Basque Political Violence and the International Discourse of Terrorism     131
Basque Emigration and Diaspora: The Americas     150
Basque Emigration and Diaspora: Asia and Oceania     177
Traditional Life-Styles and Worldviews
Fishing the World and the World of Fishing     194
Baserri and Auzo     213
Contrasting Traditions: Peasants and Fishermen Compared     229
Character and Rural Basque Sexual Mores     239
A Basque Bestiary: From Wild Boars to Tame Pigs     255
Folklore and Mythology     268
Witchcraft     279
Believers and Visionaries     293
The Contemporary World
Bilbao     308
Euskadi's Economy     318
Arrasate / Mondragon: Industrial and Agrarian Cooperativism     327
Reinventing Bilbao: From Industrial Ruins to UrbanRenewal     340
Touring Euskalherria     347
Borders     354
Twentieth-Century Impacts on the Little Community     361
Basque Cultural Studies
On Cultural Essentialism: Racism and Ethnicity     380
Gender Studies     391
Speaking Basque, Being Basque     402
The Bertsolaria's Song: Orality, Literacy, and the Polis     410
The New Basque Music: From Political Protest to Hip-Hop     423
Atxaga and the Literary Imagination     447
Basque Cinema and the Ethnographic Imagination     454
Modernist Art: Oteiza and Chillida     469
Mirentxu's Puzzle     480
Conclusion     492
Pictures     497
Index     499
Colophon     527