A shared space : : folklife in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands / / by James S. Griffith.
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...
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| Superior document: | Folklife of the West ; v. 1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Folklife of the West ;
v. 1. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of 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.