Race and nation in Puerto Rican folklore : Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico /

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"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.
Subjects:
Boas, Franz, > 1858-1942 > Travel > Puerto Rico.
Mason, John Alden, > 1885-1967 > Travel > Puerto Rico.
Boas, Franz, > 1858-1942
Mason, John Alden, > 1885-1967
Folklore > Study and teaching > Puerto Rico > History.
Ethnology > Puerto Rico > History.
Oral tradition > Puerto Rico.
National characteristics, Puerto Rican.
Puerto Ricans > Ethnic identity.
Puerto Ricans.
Folklore > Étude et enseignement > Porto Rico > Histoire.
Ethnologie > Porto Rico > Histoire.
Tradition orale > Porto Rico.
Portoricains.
Portoricains > Identité ethnique.
HISTORY > General.
Puerto Ricans
Ethnology
Folklore > Study and teaching
International relations
Manners and customs
National characteristics, Puerto Rican
Oral tradition
Puerto Ricans > Ethnic identity
Race relations
Travel
Puerto Rico > Race relations.
Puerto Rico > Social life and customs.
Puerto Rico > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Puerto Rico.
Porto Rico > Relations raciales.
Porto Rico > Mœurs et coutumes.
Porto Rico > Relations > États-Unis.
Puerto Rico
United States
History
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  • An (un)colored Puerto Rican culture : unpublished Negro fieldwork in old Loíza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.

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