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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue 47, 1993 First Basque Session at AAA For the first time an entire session of the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting was dedicated to Basques. Entitled Basque Identity: Old World and New, the session was chaired by William A. Douglass (Coordinator of the Basque Studies Program) and organized by Dr. Douglass and Steven J. Ybarrola (Central College). The annual meeting was held December 2-6, 1992 at the San Francisco Hilton. Papers were presented by: Steven J. Ybarrola, “Ideology and Identity: Who is Basque?” Teresa del Valle (Universidad del País Vasco), “Gender and the Creation of the Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Basque Society.” Joseba Zulaika (University of Nevada, Reno), “Where are you From? Basque. Basque!?: Culture as Essence and Riddle.” Sharryn M. Kasmir (CUNY-Graduate Center), “Bar Culture and Radical Basque Nationalism.” William A. Douglass, “New Ethnicity among Basque-Americans.” Roland Vazquez (Rutgers University), “The Invention of Cultural and Political Fact: Basque Batzokiak and Neotraditions.” Also participating in the session as a discussant was Jacqueline Urla (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), a former visiting scholar to the Basque Studies Program. Roland Vazquez also spent six months at the BSP this year. Joseba Zulaika is a Basque Scholar with the Program. Teresa del Valle spent a year in residence at the BSP, also as a visiting scholar. |
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