Nafarroa eta euskara: Mendialdea eta Erribera

Mountain, Society and Culture

Urtasun Antzano, Erlantz

Publication year:
1998
Publication place:
Donostia-San Sebastián
ISSN:
1137-439X

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Summary

In this work we offer a reflection on the social and cultural reality of Navarre, by revealing the cultural substitution suffered by the Basque-speaking world. The author veri-fies in this respect a clear change in concepts which had been historically used to delimit the geographical areas: the Mountain and River Bank (Ribera). We should emphasise that in the ancient documentation various geographical and ethnographical concepts appear to be linked with the Basque language. As a consequence, new lines of research are ope-ned in the field of linguistic anthropology. On the other hand, the author has related the internal organisation of that disappeared Basque-speaking world with the current situation, completing an general image of the problem. The often-mentioned historical division bet-ween the Basque-speaking monolingual Mountain area and the Spanish-speaking mono-lingual River Bank area is then seen from a more relative point of view.
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