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Record Nr.

UNISA996206487403316

Autore

Griffith James S

Titolo

Shared Space / by James S. Griffith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Utah State University, University Libraries, 1995

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

1-283-07797-3

9786613077974

0-87421-375-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Folklife of the West ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

306/.09791/7

Soggetti

Borderlands - Arizona

Borderlands - Mexico - Sonora (State)

Folklore - Mexico - Sonora (State)

Folklore - Arizona

Sonora (Mexico : State) Social life and customs

Arizona Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 ÍMuris : a study in cultural fit -- "The Mormon cowboy" : an Arizona cowboy song and its community -- Leonardo Yañez and "El moro de cumpas" : a borderlands horse-race ballad and its composer -- Baroque principles of organization in contemporary Mexican American Arizona.

Sommario/riassunto

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 ethnic backgrounds move back and forth



across  the artificial divide, despite increasing obstacles to free movement. On  either side is found a complex cultural mix of ethnic, religious, and  occupational groups. In A Shared Space James Griffith examines many of  the distinctive folk expres