Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border

Abstract

* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Part One. The Social Base and the Negotiation of Identity *1. The Folklore of Groups of Mexican Origin in the United States [1979] *2. The Problem of Identity in a Changing Culture: Popular Expressions of Culture Conflict along the Lower Rio Grande Border [1978] *3. Folk Medicine and the Intercultural jest [1968] *4. On Ethnographic Work among Minority Groups: A Folklorist's Perspective [1977] * Part Two. The Folklore Genres: History, Form, and Performance *5. Some Aspects of Folk Poetry [1964] *6. The Mexican Corrido: Its Rise and Fall [1958] *7. The Concept of the Emotional Core Applied to the Mexican Corrido Benjamin Argumedo [1972] *8. Jose Mosqueda and the Folklorization of Actual Events [1973] *9. The United States, Mexico, and Machismo [1971] *10. The Decima on the Texas-Mexican Border: Folksong as an Adjunct to Legend [1966] *11. The Undying Love of El Indio Cordova: Decimas and Oral History in a Border Family [1987] * Notes * Bibliography: The Scholarly Writings of Americo Paredes