- Collection:
- LANDSCAPES OF THE IMAGINATION
- Author / Interpreter:
- Paddy Woodworth
- Edition data:
- Oxford University Press 2008
- Subjects:
- EUSKAL KULTURA
- Location:
- XIV / 4
- Content:
- Acknowledgments..............xi
Preface..............xv
Introduction: Land of Stone, Iron and Glass: Land of the Basques..............xix
Ancient and Modern..............xxv
Chapter One: Wherixe Are We, Exactly? And What Will We Call This Place?..............1
The Urban-Rural Divide..............6
Chapter Two: A Short Version of a Long History: From the Stone Age to the Civil
War..............13
Antropology and the Skull of the Basque Ancestor..............15
A Stone-Age Language?..............18
Not One Nationalism, but Three..............21
The basque Sense of Difference..............24
Sancho: The Greatest Basque Political Figure?v26
Special Rights and the Ancestral Oak..............28
The Carlist War: The Basque Rift Deepens..............29
Sabino Arana: Inventor of Basque Nationalism..............32
The Civil War: The PNV Stands-Reclutancy-with the Republic..............35
A Nightwatchman in Navarre, a Conquistador in Bilbao..............36
Chapter Three: Bai, Bai, Urdaibai: Cave Paintings, Painted Trees, Tree of Gernika..............39
Santimamiñe and Forua: Paleolithic Paintings, Roman Smelters..............41
Txatxaramendi: The Fishing Industry Learns to Fly..............43
Mundaka: Surfers, Ecologists, a Left-handed Wave..............46
Oma's Enchanted Forest: A Threat to the Basque Nation?v51
Gernika: Democracy, Bombs and Paradoxes..............55
Chapter Four: The Frontón at the Heart of Life: The Power and Beauty of Pelota..............63
More Than a Game..............66
Lions, Foxes and Magic Moments..............70
Chapter Five: Cinco Villas: Pío Baroja, Flying Mari, Sword Dances and Sorcery..............73
An Enemy in His Own Country?..............77
Plagiarizing his Native Place..............78
Etxalar: Witches, Pigeon Shoots and Carmen..............82
Lesaka: River Dancers in Little Venice..............87
Iganzi, Arantza: Healing Waters, Baserriak for BMWs..............91
Chapter six: Gastronomy: Some Answers to the Most Urgent Basque Question..............95
From Itziar to Washington and Back..............98
A Few Snacks in Asteasu..............101
Chapter Seven: Wow, Bilbao! The Transformation of a Tough City..............103
A City Built on Iron, Wood and Water..............107
from Ruin to Resurrection..............112
Washington the City's Face, Lifting its Citizens' Hearts..............116
Jokes on the Path to Spectacular Succes..............117
We ain't Seen Nothing Yet..............119
Re-imagining the River..............120
Dark Heart, Dying Mines..............122
The Passion Flower of Revolution..............126
Seven Streets..............129
The City of Iron becomes the City of Titanium..............133
Chapter Eight: From the Music of Labour to Music as a Labour of Love..............135
Saved from Extinction: The Alboka..............138
Chapter Nine: Obaba in Asteasu: The Basque Village as a Literary Universe..............141
Truths, Wrapped in a Tissue of Fictions..............146
Putting Euskera on the Literary Map..............153
Chapter Ten: Serious Fun: Fiestas in Laguardia..............159
The Real Gods of the Fiesta..............163
A Spontaneous Chorus for the Virgin..............165
Chapter Eleven: Don't Mention the War: The Dark Side of Basque- and Spanish-
Politics..............171
A Fetish for Violence, a Fashion for revolution..............175
The Death Squads of a Democratic State..............179
Socializing the Sufering: A Teenage Intifada..............183
Regarding ETA as a Higher Power..............184
Chapter Twelve: Bay of Biscay: Wlhales, Bele Epoque, Decapitated Geese, Sexual
Politics..............189
Lekeitio: Dancing on a Casket..............194
Getaria: The Aesthetic of an Egg..............198
Belle Epoque: Zarautz, Biarritz, San Sebastián..............200
Lekeitio II: Decapitating geese..............204
Gender Wars: Hondarribia and Irún..............208
Chapter Thirteen: Navarre: Heartland or Hinterland?..............213
The Camino de Santiago: Piety and Pleasure..............218
Burguete to the Ebro: Hemingway's Hotel, a Magical Church, a Borgia's Tomb..............220
The Heart of Navarre: Olite, Artajona, Ujué, Galipienzo..............225
The Bardenas: Badlands Full of Life..............232
Chapter Fourteen: Mountain High: Pleasure, Penitence and Pagan Gods..............239
In Search of Sanctuary..............240
Chapter Fiften: Iparralde: The Basques on the Other Side of the Mountains..............245
Symbols and Substance; Being Basque in Iparralde..............249
Petit Bayonne: Cosy Streets, Dirty War and a Fine Museum..............253
Biarritz and St.-Jean-de-Luz: Faded Glories, Pleasing, melancholy..............256
Biriatou and Sara: Calvinist Catholics and the Evils of procrastination..............259
Bidarrai to Baigorri: Under the Mountains' Skirts..............264
At the End of the Basque World: Saint Engrace, Larrau, Migrating Raptors and a tribute of three
Cows..............266
Afterword
The Reality of Magic, the Magic of Reality..............271
Further Reading..............277
Glossary..............281
Index of Names & Organizations..............285
Indes of Places & Landmarks..............288
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-532800-4
- Measures:
- 21,5; 14,5
