The Silver Cradle : : Las Posadas, Los Pastores, and Other Mexican American Traditions / / Julia Nott Waugh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Waugh, Julia Nott,
• TeilnehmendeR: Almaráz, Félix D.; Winn, Bob.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1955
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (172 p.)

Originally published in 1955, The Silver Cradle is the story of a year in the life of the Mexican American people of San Antonio, Texas. During the 1950s, Julia Nott Waugh recorded the performances of such seasonal and religious traditions as Las Posadas, Los Pastores, Las Calaveras, the Blessing of the Animals, the liturgical observances of Holy Week, and festivities of el diez y seis de septiembre (Mexican Independence Day), among others. Although years have passed and many of the details of observances have changed, the festival calendar and the joy and sincerity of the Mexican American people in honoring its customs and obligations have not disappeared. Now, in fact, a much wider population shares and appreciates the pageantry preserved for us by people like Graciana Reyes, in whose prized silver cradle the Christ Child slept every year at Christmas, and like Doroteo Domínguez, whose annual devotion to presenting a thousand-year-old pastoral epic in his back yard was legendary. Waugh has done much more than just open a window onto a charming past. She has captured for us one of the true gifts of our Mexican American heritage—the willingness to ritually celebrate the passage of time and to embellish the occasions with sensitivity and fervor. This book will appeal to the general reader as well as to those interested in folk traditions and Mexican American culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Bottom of the Pile -- 2 The Silver Cradle -- 3 Babe of Beauty -- 4 The Blessing of the Animals -- 5 Apostles Twelve -- 6 Easter and Epiphany -- 7 Honor to the Cura Hidalgo -- 8 Carnival of Memory -- 9 Diversified Honors -- 10 Royalty on the West Side -- 11 A Place of Frequent Emotions