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Highlights In early February the BSP co-sponsored a lecture at UNR by James W. Fernandez, Chairman of the Department of Anthropology of Princeton University. Dr. Fernandez’s lecture was entitled “The Call of the Commons: Decline and Recommitment to the Commons as Idea and Actuality in Northern Spain.” On March 20th in Reno Robert Herman, formerly a musicologist with the BSP, performed the aria “Zer zan ori” from the Basque opera Zigor at a benefit for the Alliance Française. In December Jon Bilbao returned from the Basque Country to teach a Basque History course at UNR during the spring semester. Anthropologists Joseba Zulaika and William A. Douglass are currently team teaching a course on Old World Basque Culture at UNR. During the current term Gorka Aulestia is teaching a Basque Language course and another dealing with Basque Literature. William A. Douglass published an article entitled “Migration in Italy” in Urban Life in Mediterranean Europe: Anthropological Perspectives (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983) edited by Michael Kenny and David I. Kertzer. Janet Inda and William A. Douglass recently gave a presentation on Basque sheepherders to the Junior League of Reno. Between November 5 and November 28, 1982 the Nevada Historical Society in Reno sponsored an exhibit entitled “The World of the Basque Sheepherder.” The presentation included tree art rubbings collected by Phil and Jean Earl and still photographs taken by Richard Lane. Organizational details were attended to by Darlene Ammons, former Assistant Coordinator of the BSP. Robert Laxalt recently donated to the BSP the sheep camp paraphernalia that belonged to his father, Dominique. The items are currently in storage. However, we are hopeful that they will one day form part of a permanent museum display at this university. Under the direction of Jon Bilbao, the following publications have recently appeared in Vitoria: 1) Anuario de Eusko-Bibliographia -1981 published by the Diputación Foral de Alava, which includes “Bibliografía Sabiniana: Sabino de Arana Goiri y el nacionalismo vasco de J.E.L.” by José Luis Granja, and “La Baskonia – Indice de los articulos referentes a diáspora vasca. Buenos Aires 1893-1931,” by Chantal de Equiluz; 2) the first volume of Bibliografías Temáticas, dealing with lexicography and compiled at the request of the Academy of the Basque Language, Euskaltzaindia. |
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