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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
51, 1995
Highlights
William Douglass published an article “Muros o
puentes?” in the special issue (No. 12) of the journal
Historia y Fuente Oral (Barcelona) dedicated to
borderlands.
At the 93rd annual American Anthropological
Association held in Atlanta (Nov.30-Dec.4), Joseba Zulaika was a co-organizer of the
invited session “Receptions of Violence: Iconoclastic After-Texts,
After-Images and the Post-Ethnographic
Site.” He presented a paper entitled “Writers and
Terrorists: The Post-Ethnographic Encounter.”
Linda White published the article “Female
Bertsolaris: Not the Customary Thing” in Journal of the
Society of Basque Studies in America, Vol. XIV, pp. 1-16,
1994.
Jose Mallea attended the Congreso Internacional
“Los vascos en las regiones de México. Siglos
XVI-XX” December 7-9, 1994 in Jalapa, Veracruz
(Mexico). Mallea presented a paper entitled “Fray Juan
Zumarraga y los vascos. Lealtad al linaje y a la
etnia.”
José Manual Azcona of Barakaldo
(Bizkaia) was in
residence from July 21 to August 17 to do research on Basque
emigration.
Begoña Pecharroman, studying Social
Anthropology at the University of the Basque Country
(Donosti) spent August and September 1994 in the Basque
Studies Program researching her study of Basque women in the
West to provide data on the settlement of sheepherders in
the area.
Estibalitz Amorrortu, former Basque Government
stipend recipient, recently completed her Master’s
degree in English, with a thesis on Basque language usage in
Elko, Nevada.
Teresa del Valle spent June 26 through August 28 in
residence at the Basque Studies Program last summer
preparing a book outline on gender and space in Basque
society.
Author of prize-winning children’s books in
Basque, Mariasun Landa, visited Reno and the BSP during July
and August to study English, confer with the University of
Nevada Press and meet the BSP staff.
William Douglass and Susan Parman of the University
of California, Fullerton were co-organizers of the invited
session “American Perspectives in the History of the
Anthropology of Europe” at the American Anthropological
Association annual meetings held in Atlanta last December.
Douglass presented a paper entitled “Restless
Continent: Migration and the Configuration of
Europe.”
Patxi Juaristi of the Departamento de
Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad of the
University of the Basque Country (Bilbao) spent several
weeks at the Program last summer doing research about the
Basque mentality through content analysis of songs, tales
and proverbs.
From July 9 to August 12, 1994, Idoia Mallea of the
University of Deusto (Bilbao) visited the Basque Studies
Program to do research in our library collection for her
dissertation in regional geography.
On the morning of January 20, 1995 Jose Mallea
presented a slide show and lecture for the general public on
“Basque History. Shepherding and Arborglyphs in the
Sierra” at the California state offices of Historic
Preservation and Archaeology. Later that afternoon, he gave
a presentation on “Methodology for Identification and
Recordation of Arborglyphs. A Technical Discussion” for
archaeologists, cultural resource managers, and
foresters.
Joseba Zulaika lectured on “El
antropólogo como impostor” at the University of
the Basque Country (Donosti) on November 1, 1994. He also
published an article of the same title in Antropología
1994, 7:115-130.
William Douglass translated the book Contra el
estado-nación by Gurutz Jauregui Bereciartu. It is
now available in English from the University of Nevada Press
under the title Decline of the Nation-State.
Miel Anjel Elustondo is in residence as this
year’s recipient of the Basque Government Scholarship
that annually sends a Basque student to the University of
Nevada, Reno to study and help teach the elementary Basque
classes.
Joseba Zulaika is teaching a seminar course on
“Exhibiting Arts and Cultures: Museums and Anthropology in the Postmodern
World.”
Two doctoral students from the University of the
Basque Country (UPV), Edurne Erkizia and Asier Sarasua, are
currently studying at the University of Nevada as part of an
exchange with the UPV that each year allows two students to
come to Reno to engage in graduate
studies.
Two young chefs from the Basque Country, Iñaki
Pikabea and Jon Eizagirre, visited the BSP recently as part
of a four-week tour of Nevada and Idaho. They visited
Basque-American communities and gave several cooking
demonstrations. The trip was their prize for winning a
contest sponsored by Mumm’s Champagne and Hotel de
Londres, Donostia, Gipuzkoa.
Estibalitz Amorrortu is currently teaching the second
semester of both first- and second-year Basque language here
at UNR.
Joseba Zulaika gave a lecture entitled “De
parodías vascas e imposturas
antropológicas” at the University of the Basque
Country, Leioa, on October 20, 1994.
Last fall, the Basque Studies Program received a $10,000 donation from the
Ahmanson Foundation, which enabled us to make some
additional book purchases for the Basque library collection.
We are very grateful for their generosity. Eskerrik
asko!
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