Book
Basque violence: metaphor and sacrament
University of Nevada Press • Reno • Published In 1988 • Pages: xxxi, 423
By: Zulaika, Joseba.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph, based on a doctoral dissertation submitted to Princeton University in 1982, is a study of Basque political violence in the village of Itziar on the Cantabrian coast of Guipuzcoa Province, Spain. The work gives a fully contexualized cultural account of the endemic conflict engaging Basque villagers both as protagonists and as spectators and attempts to understand the conscious and unconscious presuppositions of the violence. In addition to the major theme, 'Zulaika presents various narratives to illustrate the villagers' perceptions of history as myth, war, heroism, and tragedy; he also examines radical transformations in the society's basic socio-economic institutions due to industrialization. He then turns his attention to cultural models of performance such as popular games, hunting, troubadorial singing, and traditional mythology. Zulaika argues that ritualization of action, as patterned after analogous folk models, is an essential component of the violence. Furthermore, the author examines the tension between metaphor and sacrament -- nationalist violence interpreted as myth and metaphor as opposed to violence experienced with the literalness of Catholic sacrament' (book jacket).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociolinguistics
- Hunting and trapping
- Cooperative organization
- Games
- Athletic sports
- Music
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Household
- Political parties
- Political movements
- Offenses against life
- Sacred objects and places
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Basques
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- tenth century A.D.-1981
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Village of Itziar, Province of Guipuzcoa, Spain
- NotesAdditional notes
- Joseba Zulaika
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1982
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-397) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87035432
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basques