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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
60, 1999
Online Course on Basque
Culture
Basque C466 “Basque Culture and
Politics”
Professor: Joseba Zulaika
The objective of the course is to offer a
comprehensive and critical overview of Basque society,
culture and politics. It provides an anthropological
background to issues of Basque Cultural Studies, with an
emphasis on contemporary topics of diasporic culture,
identity and globalization.
Among the topics covered by the 30 lessons of the
course are the occupational and institutional settings that
have characterized the Basques -peasants, shepherds,
hunters, fishermen - and the worldviews that derive from
them. Witchcraft, popular religious forms, folklore and
ritual, and other symbolic aspects are examined as well.
Attention is also given to the history of Basque
nationalism, the problem of terrorism and the ongoing
process of pacification and political negotiation within the
present context of Europeanization.
The course pays special attention to the dialectics
by which, on the one hand, Basques project a sense of
prehistoric past, hold on to unique oral and linguistic
forms, recreate traditional contents in present literature
and art; whereas, on the other hand, they make use of such
politics of culture to further their political and economic
interests in a world of rapid cultural transition and
globalization
Available for enrollment November 1,
1999
Web: www.dce.unr.edu/istudy/internet.htm
Offered by the Basque Studies Program and Independent
Study by Correspondence
Enroll by phone-800.233.8928,
by fax-775.784.4801, or on the web.
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