essay
Basque immigrants: contrasting patterns of adaptation in Argentina and the American West
Currents in anthropology : essays in honor of Sol Tax • The Hague • Published In 1979 • Pages: 287-303
By: Douglass, William A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Douglass examines the New World history of one European immigrant group, the Basques of southwestern France and north-central Spain, who settled on the Argentine pampas of South America and in western United States. Despite the fact that both groups participated in sheep raising as a common economic denominator, the two Basque colonies evolved culturally along two different lines. The comparative data on these two groups make up the bulk of this document (see categories 105, 171, and 181). Information strictly related to the Basques of the American West deals largely with conflicts with the cattlemen of the area, and government legislations designed to curb the growth of the Basque sheep-herding industry.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- External migration
- Comparative evidence
- Pastoral activities
- Ethnic stratification
- Legal norms
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- nineteenth-mid-twentieth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- William A. Douglass
- Includes bibliographical references (p.302-303)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81150828
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basque Americans