The conceptual leaps of Basque anthropology and the embodiment of Basque culture
Keywords:
Basque culture, body, emotions, lived identityAbstract
This article sets out from the evolution of Basque anthropology and aims to apply the analysis of Basque culture to the vision that makes feminist anthropology and social theories of the body and emotions possible. This type of ethnography has the profound capacity to describe the heterogeneity, complexity and materiality of cultures and to explain the diverse meaning that people give to life. Therefore, it treats the enriching experience of being a Basque speaker and a speaker of other languages, or the diverse definitions and experiences that people possess with regard to Basque culture, attempting to underline the differences between lived identity and identification. Chroniclers have mentioned the embodiment and distinctive features of Basque culture, which makes the notion of “Basque” its own whilst also spreading it out and making it something unstable.