A shared space : folklife in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands / / by James S. Griffith
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Griffith James S
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| Titolo: |
A shared space : folklife in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands / / by James S. Griffith
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| Pubblicazione: | Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 306/.09791/7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Folklore - Arizona |
| Folklore - Mexico - Sonora (State) | |
| Borderlands - Mexico - Sonora (State) | |
| Borderlands - Arizona | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Arizona Social life and customs |
| Sonora (Mexico : State) Social life and customs | |
| 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 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. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A Shared Space |
| ISBN: | 1-283-07797-3 |
| 9786613077974 | |
| 0-87421-375-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910141011003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Folklife of the West ; ; v. 1.