Festei buruzko inkesta-lana Gipuzkoako kostaldea

Beltrán Argiñena, Juan Mari
; Garaialde, Karlos
; Santos, Pedro Mari

Publication year:

1994

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

0212-7547

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Summary

Collected data on the festivities that used to be held along the coast of Gipuzkoa from Orio in the east to Mutriku in the west. In order to carry out the interviews, information has been collected on the basic of a questionnaire from the Folklore Section of Eusko Ikaskuntza (especially Music-Musicians and Dances-Dancers). Forty-two people were interviewed, twenty-five men and seventeen women. The eldest was born in 1902 and the youngest in 1927. Most of them were born prior to 1916. Fishermen, farmworkers, storekeepers, housewives... Some of them used to be dancers and excellent musicians, and all of them loved the festivities. Of these nine villages or areas, six are towns (Orio, Zarautz, Getaria, Zumaya, Deba and Mutriku), and three are rural (the neighbourhoods of San Martín de Orio, Aia and Itziar). This work is the fruit of field studies which, under the title "Basque cultural personality" I directed in the role of main researcher during 1989-90. I was awarded a grant by the University of the Basque Country. In this research we can see a repetition of the conclusions reached in other field sutudies, again carried out by myself in Elgueta, Baztán and Maruri, where the Basque person has an outstanding relationship to the mother figure as well as confirmation of the phenomenon which Barandiarán called "Basque Country".