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, 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 perfor...

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1. Verfasser: Ocasio, Rafael 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, New Jersey Rutgers University Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:Critical Caribbean studies
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Retention and reinvention of Puerto Rican oral folklore tales
  • Porto Rico as a colonial scientific laboratory : documenting Puerto Rican oral folklore
  • A post-Spanish American War national identity : editing Puerto Rican folktales in a socio-political vacuum
  • Jíbaros' authorship through self-literary characterization
  • Telling a story about class and ethnicity through fairy tales, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas
  • An (un)colored Puerto Rican culture : unpublished Negro fieldwork in old Loíza
  • Tropicalizing the Puerto Rican racial past : the quest of an Indian area