Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border

Name: Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border
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ISBN: 9780292765641

ISBN-10: 0292765649

ISBN-13: 9780292765641

Edition: 1995

Authors: Amï¿½rico Paredes, Richard Bauman, Amï¿½rico Paredes

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In an illustrious career spanning over forty years, Ameacute;rico Paredes has often set the standard for scholarship and writing in folklore and Chicano studies. In folklore, he has been in the vanguard of important theoretical and methodological movements. In Chicano studies, he stands as one of the premier exponents. Paredes' books are widely known and easily available, but his scholarly articles are not so familiar or accessible. To bring them to a wider readership, Richard Bauman has selected eleven essays that eloquently represent the range and excellence of Paredes' work. The hardcover edition of Folklore and Culture was published in 1993. This paperback edition will make the book…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 2/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 317
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

A distinguished senior scholar, the late Amï¿½rico Paredes was the Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and English at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1990 he received the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor Mexico bestows on foreigners.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Social Base and the Negotiation of Identity



The Folklore of Groups of Mexican Origin in the United States [1979]



The Problem of Identity in a Changing Culture: Popular Expressions of Culture Conflict along the Lower Rio Grande Border [1978]



Folk Medicine and the Intercultural jest [1968]



On Ethnographic Work among Minority Groups: A Folklorist's Perspective [1977]



The Folklore Genres: History, Form, and Performance



Some Aspects of Folk Poetry [1964]



The Mexican Corrido: Its Rise and Fall [1958]



The Concept of the Emotional Core Applied to the Mexican Corrido "Benjamin Argumedo" [1972]



Joseacute; Mosqueda and the Folklorization of Actual Events [1973]



The United States, Mexico, and Machismo [1971]



The Deacute;cima on the Texas-Mexican Border: Folksong as an Adjunct to Legend [1966]



The Undying Love of "El Indio" Coacute;rdova: Deacute;cimas and Oral History in a Border Family [1987]


Notes


Bibliography: The Scholarly Writings of Ameacute;rico Paredes