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A shared space : folklife in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands / by James S. Griffith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffith, James S.
- Series:
- Folklife of the West ; v. 1.
- Folklife of the West ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Arizona.
- Folklore.
- Folklore--Mexico--Sonora (State).
- Borderlands--Mexico--Sonora (State).
- Borderlands.
- Borderlands--Arizona.
- Arizona--Social life and customs.
- Arizona.
- Sonora (Mexico : State)--Social life and customs.
- Sonora (Mexico : State).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1995.
- Logan Utah State University Press, [1995]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613077974
- 9781283077972
- 1283077973
- 9780874213751
- 0874213754
- OCLC:
- 751695390
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