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, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mason, John Alden, > 1885-1967 > Travel > Puerto Rico.
Boas, Franz, > 1858-1942 > Travel > Puerto Rico.
Puerto Ricans > Ethnic identity.
National characteristics, Puerto Rican.
Oral tradition > Puerto Rico.
Ethnology > Puerto Rico > History.
Folklore > Study and teaching > Puerto Rico > History.
United States > Relations > Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico > Relations > United States.
Puerto Rico > Social life and customs.
Puerto Rico > Race relations.
Electronic books.
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  • An (un)colored Puerto Rican culture : unpublished Negro fieldwork in old Loíza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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