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Highlights The seventh volume of Jon Bilbao’s Eusko Bibliographia (San Sebastián: Editorial Auñamendi, 1970- ) has been published and the eighth volume is now in press. This eighth volume will complete the original work covering the years through 1960 and will contain the first part of the supplement for the years 1961-1975. Photo-archivist Richard H. Lane has published an essay, “Sheepherder, Sheepmen, and Nevada Public Lands: The Past as Future?”, in Ruth Houghton and Leontine Nappe (eds.), Nevada Lifestyles and Lands (Reno: Bureau of Governmental Research, University of Nevada, pp. 70-74). The new Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West, edited by Howard Lamar (New York: Thomas Crowell Company), contains an article by William A. Douglass on “Basques in the American West.” In residence during the month of February was Sandra Ott of Oxford University’s Institute of Social Anthropology. Ms Ott, who recently completed extensive fieldwork in Ste. Engrâce (Soule), is preparing her dissertation for a D.Phil. in anthropology. For the first time in its history, the Modern Language Association had a Basque studies session as part of its annual meeting. Held in Chicago in late December, and organized and chaired by Professor Roslyn M. Frank of the University of Iowa, the session featured presentations by Professor Leonard Bloom of the University of Bridgeport (Connecticut) and Jon Bilbao of the Basque Studies Program. The commentator for the session was Professor Maria Embeitia of Sweet Briar College. At the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, also held in December in Chicago, the Program’s linguistic coordinator Professor William H. Jacobsen, Jr. was one of the discussants in a colloquium dealing with ergative-type languages (e.g., Basque). Jon Bilbao returned in December to Reno after several months of bibliographic research in the Basque country. The January 29th Nevada Weekly television program produced by the University of Nevada, Reno Office of Information had a feature story on Jon Bilbao. |
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