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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ocasio, Rafael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Series:Critical Caribbean studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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  • An (un)colored Puerto Rican culture : unpublished Negro fieldwork in old Loíza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.