A shared space folklife in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands

Where it divides Arizona and Sonora, the international boundary between Mexico and the United States is both a political reality, literally expressed by a fence, and, to a considerable degree, a cultural illusion. Mexican, Anglo, and Native American cultures straddle the fence; people of various...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Griffith, James S. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press 1995.
Colección:Folklife of the West ; v. 1.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432632606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Respect and continuity : the arts of death in a border community
  • The Magdalena holy picture : religious folk art in two cultures
  • Cascarones : a florescent folk art form in southern Arizona
  • El Tiradito and Juan Soldado : two victim intercessors of the western borderlands
  • The Black Christ of IMuris : a study in cultural fit
  • "The Mormon cowboy" : an Arizona cowboy song and its community
  • Leonardo Yanez and "El moro de cumpas" : a borderlands horse-race ballad and its composer
  • Baroque principles of organization in contemporary Mexican American Arizona.