Book
Basques in the western United States: a functional approach to determination of cultural presence in the geographic landscape
University Microfilms, A Xerox Company • Ann Arbor, Michigan • Published In 1970 • Pages:
By: Castelli, Joseph Roy.
Abstract
This study examines two cultures in contact -- Basques and non-Basques --in the sheep herding industry in the western United States. The focus of the dissertation, however, is the Basque community in Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyoming. Castelli offers a theoretical model for comparing the two cultural groups '…in order to determine the existence of a cultural landscape created by a small indentifiable cultural group [the Basques] within the area of a more 'sophisticated' culture [the non-Basques]' (p. iii). The basis for the establishment of this model, based on cultural concepts postulated by the anthropologists Robert Redfield, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Carl O. Sauer, are described in great detail on pp. 1-27 of the text. Additional topics discussed in this work are immigration, physical geography, settlement patterns in the western United States, sheep herding, and land ownership.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1997
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Geographer
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1995
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- mid-nineteenth century - 1960s
- Coverage Place
- Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyoming, United States
- Notes
- by Joseph Roy Castelli
- UM 70-23,697
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-165)
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Colorado, 1970
- LCSH
- Basque Americans