Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore : : Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico /

Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore : : Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico / / Rafael Ocasio.

Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore: Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico, 1915 explores the founding father of American anthropology’s historic trip to Puerto Rico in 1915. As a component of the Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Boas intended to perform field res...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
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Ocasio, Rafael,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Critical Caribbean Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.) :; 4 b&w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • In memoriam Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016)
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Retention and Reinvention of Puerto Rican Oral Folklore Tales
  • Chapter 1. Porto Rico as a Colonial Scientific Laboratory
  • Chapter 2. A Post–Spanish-American War National Identity
  • Chapter 3. Jíbaros’ Authorship through Literary Self-Characterization
  • Chapter 4. Telling a Story about Class and Ethnicity through Fairy Tales, Cuentos Puertorriqueños, and Leyendas
  • Chapter 5. An (Un)colored Puerto Rican Culture
  • Chapter 6. Tropicalizing the Puerto Rican Racial Past
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author

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