Theorizing Folklore from the Margins : Critical and Ethical Approaches / edited by Solimar Otero and Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Otero, Solimar, editor.

Martinez-Rivera, Mintzi Auanda, editor.

Series:

Activist encounters in folklore and ethnomusicology.

Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk literature, Latin American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]

Summary:

By bridging the gap between theory and practice, Theorizing Folklore from the Margins confirms that engaging with oppressed communities is not only relevant, but necessary.

Contents:

White traditioning and bruja epistemologies: rebuilding the house of US American folklore studies / Rachel V. González-Martin

Un tumbe Ch'ixi: incorporating afro-descendant ideas into an Andean anticolonial methodology / Juan Eduardo Wolf

Disrupting the archive / Miriam Melton-Villanueva and Sheila Bock

Afrolatinx folklore and representation: interstices and antiauthenticity / Solimar Otero

Behaving like relatives: or, we don't sit around and talk politics with strangers / Rhonda R. Dass

Political protest, ideology, and social criticism in Wolof folk poetry / Cheikh Tidiane Lo

Sugar Cane Alley: teaching the concept of "group" from a critical folkloristics perspective / Katherine Borland

Movimiento armado / armed movement / Itzel Guadalupe Garcia

Ni lacras, ni lesbianas normalizadas: trauma, matrimonio, conectividad y representación audiovisual para la comunidad lesbiana en Cuba / Mabel Cuesta

"Batata? Batata!": examining Puerto Rican visual folk expression in times of adversity / Gloria M. Colom Braña

Forming strands and ties in the knotted Atlantic: methodologies of color and practice of beadwork in Lucumí religion / Martin A. Tsang

Of blithe spirits: narratives of rebellion, violence, and cosmic memory in Haitian Vodou / Alexander Fernández

"No one would believe us": an autoethnography of conducting fieldwork in a conflict zone / Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera

"La Sierra Juárez en Riverside": the inaugural Oaxacan philharmonic bands audition on a university campus / Xóchitl Chávez

Hidden thoughts and exposed bodies: art, everyday life, and queering Cuban masculinities / Cory W. Thorne

Complexifying identity through disability: critical folkloristic perspectives on being a parent and experiencing illness and disability through my child / Phyllis M. May-Machunda

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-05610-1

0-253-05608-X

OCLC:

1250090600