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Amaia Salazar: Modern Detective, Fairy Tale Heroine, Ancestral Basque Woman, Agnieszka Gutthy
Amaia Salazar: Modern Detective, Fairy Tale Heroine, Ancestral Basque Woman, Agnieszka Gutthy
BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal
Amaia Salazar is the protagonist of Dolores Redondo’s Baztán trilogy: El guardián invisible, 2012 (The Invisible Guardian), Legado en los huesos, 2013 (The Legacy of the Bones), Ofrenda a la tormenta, 2014 (Offering to the Storm. The novels are hybrid texts that weave in the detective story elements of Basque mythology, fairy tale, and the noir. It is in the character of the detective Amaia Salazar that all these elements converge. Dolores Redondo successfully created a character of a female detective who is not only bright, rational professional investigator relying on the most recent advance …
Word Concreteness And Word Originality: A Basque Case Study, Casey Kennington
Word Concreteness And Word Originality: A Basque Case Study, Casey Kennington
BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal
Basque is the oldest known spoken language of Western Europe that is not descended from Indo-European. Despite efforts to stop its use from external influences, the Basque people have shown resiliency throughout their history to keep the language alive. However, as is the case with all other languages, Basque has not been immune to influence from neighboring languages; indeed all Basque speakers are bilingual. The question explored here is whether a word’s concreteness using machine translation from Basque to English and English concreteness scores determines if an original Basque word is spoken today. We find that there is a significant …
The History Of Usac: Innovation And Relationship Building, Carmelo Urza
The History Of Usac: Innovation And Relationship Building, Carmelo Urza
BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal
A personal recollection of USAC, a study abroad organization created so that U.S. students could spend time in the Basque Country learning about its history, culture and language. What circumstances led to its establishment, what issues were encountered and what strategies were implemented to overcome them? The piece describes how the Consortium was organized and financed and how it grew into one of the largest and most prestigious study abroad organizations in the U.S. This is an insiders account of the complexity of creating a study abroad consortium and managing it for its first 35 years.
Basque Identity In The 21st Century: Up Close No One Is Normal, Julieta Gaztañaga
Basque Identity In The 21st Century: Up Close No One Is Normal, Julieta Gaztañaga
BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal
A dynamic conception of identity is not about asserting traits or searching for primordial essences but about the processes and contexts of its dynamic and living production including its social futures. Looking forward to contributing to Basque Studies this article offers an analysis of the complexities of contemporary reconfigurations of identification processes by focusing on the problem of Basque identity in the 21st century. I propose an approach not linked to the "Homeland/Diaspora" model but rather to a form of multifaceted and trans-local dynamics that arises from interaction with multiple places and contexts of cultural production and collective identification. The …