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Joseba Zulaika
Professor, Center for Basque Studies
zulaika@unr.edu
775.682.5575
Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, Princeton University
Research interests
Ongoing research: the Bilbao Guggenheim Museoa and
the ethnography of Bilbao with additional emphasis on global
culture, architecture, museum politics, and tourism
industries. Primary research interests: Basque
culture and politics, the international discourse of
terrorism, various traditional occupations (fishermen,
hunters, farmers), diasporic and global cultures, history of
anthropological thought, theories of symbolism, ritual and
discourse.
Courses taught
Basque Culture (online as well).
Bilbao Guggenheim Museum (online as well).
Culture and Globalization.
The Anthropology of Europe.
Exhibiting Arts and Cultures: Museums and Anthropology in
the Postmodern World.
Storytellers and Troubadours: Explorations in Basque Oral
Culture.
Selected publications
Terranova: The Ethos and Luck of Deep-Sea
Fishermen (Newfoundland: ISER, 1981).
Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
(Reno: University of Nevada, 1988).
Chivos y soldados: la mili como ritual de iniciación (San Sebastián:
Baroja, 1988).
Ehiztariaren erotika (Donostia: Erein, 1990).
Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables and Faces of
Terrorism (with William Douglass) (New York: Routledge,
1996).
Del Cromañón al Carnaval: los vascos
como museo antropológico (San
Sebastián: Erein, 1996).
Crónica de una seducción: el Museo
Guggenheim Bilbao (Madrid: Nerea, 1997).
Enemigos, no hay enemigo (San Sebastián: Erein, 1999).
Recent Articles
2005 “La Palanca como transgresión y memoria: sexo y religión, amor
e ironía en el Bilbao postfranquista.” In J. R. Resina y U. Winter,
eds., Casa encantada. Lugares de memoria en la España
constitucional (Vervuert. Iberoamericana), pp. 131-154.
2005 “Desiring
Bilbao: The Krensification of the Museum and Its Discontents.” In
Learning from the Bilbao Guggenheim, (Reno: Center for Basque
Studies), pp. 149-170.
2005 “Nourishment by the
Negative: National Subalternity, Antagonism, and Radical Democracy.”
In Empire and Terror (Reno: Center for Basque Studies),
pp. 115-136.
2003 “Death and Laughter in Oteiza,” in Jorge Oteiza (exhibit catalog, Haim
Chanin Fine Arts, NY).
2003 “Excessive Witnessing: The Ethical as Temptation,” in Witness
and Memory. The Discourse of Trauma, eds. Ana Douglass and Thomas Vogler (N.Y.: Routledge).
2002 “The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism.” Radical History
Review 85:191-199.
2001 “Krens’s Taj
Mahal: The Guggenheim’s Global Love Museum,” Discourse,
Issue on “Imperial Disclosures,” 23.1:100-118.
2001 “Tough Beauty:
Bilbao as Ruin, Architecture and Allegory.” Joan Ramon Resina, ed., Iberian
Cities (N.Y. and London: Routledge), pp.1-17.
2001 “Los centros de arte como revitalizadores del tijido
urbano,” inventario. Edición especial, no. 7, 2001.
2000 “‘Miracle in Bilbao’: Basques in the
Casino of Globalism”. In W. Douglass, C. Urza, L. White, and J. Zulaika,
eds., Basque Cultural Studies (Basque Studies Program Occasional
Papers Series, No.5) (Reno: Basque Studies Program).
Full curriculum
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