Book
Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World
University of Nevada Press • Reno, Nevada • Published In 1975 • Pages: xiv, 519
By: Douglass, William A., Bilbao, Jon.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is primarily an historical study of the Basques of the American West based on oral histories, personal observations, questionnaires, official records, newspaper files, and published sources. As background to understanding the Basque character the authors present a lengthy section of text (pp. 9-176) dealing with European Basque history from the prehistoric period to their early migrations to South America in the early nineteenth century. This information has been indexed for category 170 in the N018 North American Basque file. In dealing with the Basques of the American West, Douglass and Bilbao begin with the missionary period in Spanish California in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, then proceed to a discsussion of Basque immigration to the area in the mid-nineteenth century, their initial employment in the mining industry, their eventual involvement in sheep herding, and finally their migration to other regions of the United States. One chapter of particular interest in the book deals with the degree to which the Basque-Americans have maintained their ethnicity in spite of the acculturative pressure of the dominant American society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Pastoral activities
- Labor supply and employment
- Travel services
- Rest days and holidays
- Ethnic stratification
- 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.
- 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
- 1967-1974
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- mid-nineteenth century-1970s
- 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 and Jon Bilbao
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-519)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75030830
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basque Americans