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Basque immigrants : contrasting patterns of adaptation in Argentina and the American West -- Factors in the formation of the new world Basque emigrant diaspora -- The Basques of North Queensland, Australia -- The other Basques -- Sheep ranchers and sugar growers : property transmission in the Basque immigrant family of the American West and Australia -- Nationalism through the prism of the Basque emigrant diaspora -- Santi's story -- Lonely lives under the big sky -- Inventing an ethnic identity : the first Basque festival -- The vanishing Basque sheepherder -- On the naming of Arizona -- In the mirror : reflections on the origins of the Basque studies program -- Through the looking glass, or, Becoming the datum -- The antithetical Basque : Iparraguirre in America -- In search of Juan de Oñate : confessions of a cryptoessentialist -- Robert Erburu and becoming a postmodern Basque -- Basque-American identity : past perspectives and future prospects -- Interstitial culture, virtual ethnicity and hyphenated Basque identity in the new millennium -- End of the trail

Cet article examine les approches différentes, de la part des chercheurs français et espagnols, de l'étude des ménages de la famille souche pyrénéenne. Pour les Français c'est tantôt un bastion de stabilité sociale et d'harmonie (Le Play), tantôt une institution pernicieuse et inégalitaire où certains membres de la famille exploitent les autres (Bourdieu). Pour les Espagnols ce type de ménage est un modèle de rationalité pour l'économie agraire (Jovellanos et Costa) et le refuge d'une caractérisation culturelle (Basques et Catalans). Ces approches différentes, et leurs interprétations de la même institution, sont analysées comme des fonctions de l'histoire d'Espagne et de celle de la France autant que comme des traditions historiques distinctes de chacune des deux nations.

Observers of rural Basque society have regularly contended that its basic social unit is the stem family household associated with the baserria system of agricultural production. The stem family household has long been an object of speculation, and its sanctity and preservation was a common theme in Basque literature. A close analysis of the population records of the village of Echalar in Navarre, making use of both synchronic and longitudinal analysis, suggests that the stem family household was indeed realized regularly in Echalar, and the fact of its statistical minority at any one point in time was due more to demographic limitations rather than to the presence of a competing family ethos.

Throughout the 1970s there was a dearth of Iberian contributions to the expanding body of knowledge regarding European family history, but this is no longer the case. Studies carried out in the 1980s, as well as scholarship incorporated in the anthropological/ethnographic tradition and in the juristic tradition, provide contemporary as well as historical baselines against which the student of family history can compare and evaluate information gleaned from the analysis of population. The greater availability of primary sources in southern Europe portends the future proliferation of Iberian family history studies.

Problem of distinguishing ethnicity from nationality; analyzes the results for Basque-Americans, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of both the way in which the question was framed and the subsequent aggregation of the responses.