Politics, Culture, and Sociability in the Basque Nationalist Party (The Basque Series)
Book Details
Author(s)Roland Vazquez
PublisherUniversity of Nevada Press
ISBN / ASIN0874178223
ISBN-139780874178227
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Sales Rank3,003,772
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Until now, social scientists studying Spanish politics have focused on party systems, regime transition, and election analysis, and anthropologists studying
Spain have largely neglected its political parties. This book is a pathbreaking
work of political anthropology and an ethnographic study of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV). Author Roland Vazquez studies Basque nationalism as not merely a political phenomenon but as a cultural and social one as well. He examines the forces that have shaped the Basque political panorama, the nature of Basque political campaigns, Basque cultural and social movements both inside and outside the explicitly partisan milieu, and the role of other parties in the Basque Country.
The study is enhanced by extensive interviews and broad fieldwork among Basque contacts of diverse backgrounds and loyalties. The result is a vivid portrait of political life in the contemporary Basque Country, of the tensions between various nationalist parties and philosophies, and of the way politics are influenced by Basque notions of community, social connections, and national
identity. The book also serves as a model for studies of other political and nationalist movements and the cultural and social ties and values that drive them.
Spain have largely neglected its political parties. This book is a pathbreaking
work of political anthropology and an ethnographic study of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV). Author Roland Vazquez studies Basque nationalism as not merely a political phenomenon but as a cultural and social one as well. He examines the forces that have shaped the Basque political panorama, the nature of Basque political campaigns, Basque cultural and social movements both inside and outside the explicitly partisan milieu, and the role of other parties in the Basque Country.
The study is enhanced by extensive interviews and broad fieldwork among Basque contacts of diverse backgrounds and loyalties. The result is a vivid portrait of political life in the contemporary Basque Country, of the tensions between various nationalist parties and philosophies, and of the way politics are influenced by Basque notions of community, social connections, and national
identity. The book also serves as a model for studies of other political and nationalist movements and the cultural and social ties and values that drive them.
