Mexican-American Folklore

ISBN-13: 9780874830590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 314 str.

John O. West

Opis

Mexican-American traditions are richly nourished by the folkways of three cultures: Indian, Spanish, and Mexican. This comprehensive look at the Mexican-American world includes a range of traditional proverbs, riddles, stories and folksongs; folk narrative, from Pancho Villa to urban ghosts, saints to revolutionaries; customs, from household shrines to irrigation rituals to charreadas, or Mexican-style rodeos; children's games, home remedies, folk foods, crafts, dress, and more. Besides its wide range of folk genres, Mexican-American Folklore is also broad-ranging in space it covers the entire American Southwest, and in time, it includes material from several generations back, as well as very recent adaptations of customs to modern life."