Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament (Basque Series) - Hardcover

Zulaika, Joseba

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874171326 ISBN 13: 9780874171327

Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr, 1988

Synopsis

This timely book captures the complexity and humanity of one of the most agonizing of contemporary problems--that of terrorist violence. Basque Violence is in fact a pioneering attempt to give a fully contextualized, cultural account of the endemic conflict engaging Basque villagers both as protagonists and as spectators. By using the tools of cultural anthropology, Joseba Zulaika provides the first ethnographic analysis of this politically explosive situation.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseba Zulaika is currently Director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Review:

"Zulaika has made a unique and moving contribution to the growing body of ethnography by anthropologists returning to their ancestral societies and communities, a needed complement to R.P. Clark’s important The Basque Insurgents: ETA 1952-1980 and a test of anthropology’s capacity to explicate what seems not only senseless but abhorrent to outsiders." -–Choice

"“Zulaika has “not only greatly enriched out understanding Basque violence and its causes, but also has provided a searing personal document that may stand as a model of the ethnographer’s craft...This is one of those rare books that raises the level of sophistication of an entire intellectual enterprise."”-American Ethnologist

"Basque Violence is the most skillful, imaginative ethnography of Iberia since the publication of Belmonte de los Cabellerros...A sensitively written, exciting book that deserves to be read by more than just ethnographers of Europe." -Man
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0874171326
• ISBN 13: 9780874171327
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 423