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Trees: Basque Sheepherder Arborglyphs, Abstract Historians are used to digging in archives, but the idea of having to go into the mountains and get primary information from reading trees, is totally alien. Yet, there are hundreds of aspen groves in the American West that contain precise, localized, and unpublished ethnohistoric sources regarding the sheep industry in the last century. The arborglyphs are an autobiographical monument to the history of the common man, the Basque sheepherders, who actually did most of the sheepherding work. |
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Joxe
Mallea has been a researcher and recorder of arborglyphs at the
University of Nevada, Reno Center for Basque Studies since 1985,
he also teaches Nevada History at the Truckee Meadows Community
College in Reno. Dr. Mallea was born in Europe, holds a Master of
Arts degree on Colonial Latin American History from the University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a Ph.D. in History-Basque Studies from
the University of Nevada, Reno. His books include The Power of
Nothing: Life and Adventures of Ignacio "Idaho", Speaking
Through the Aspens: Basque Tree Carvings in California and Nevada,
and Shooting From the Lip: Improvised Basque-Verse Singing.
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