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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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Sociocultural trends
- Pastoral activities
- Real property
- Labor supply and employment
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Basque Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- 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 ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- mid-nineteenth century - 1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyoming, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Joseph Roy Castelli
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Colorado, 1970
- UM 70-23,697
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-165)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basque Americans