A shared space
Subtitle: folklife in theArizona-Sonora borderlands
By: by James S. Griffith..
Series: Folklife of the West -- vol.1
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Logan, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Folklore -- Arizona.; Folklore -- Mexico -- Sonora (State); Arizona -- Social life and customs.; Sonora(Mexico , State) -- Social life and customs.; Arizona -- Boundaries -- Mexico -- Sonora (State); Sonora (Mexico , State) -- Boundaries -- Arizona.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
Table of contents: value: Contents, Respect and continuity , the arts of death in a border community; value: The Magdalena holy picture , religious folk art in two cultures; value: Cascarones , a florescent folk art form in southern Arizona; value: El Tiradito and Juan Soldado , two victim intercessors of the western borderlands; value: The Black Christ of ÍMuris , a study in cultural fit; value: "The Mormon cowboy" , an Arizona cowboy song and its community; value: Leonardo Yañez and "El moro de cumpas" , a borderlands horse-race ballad and its composer; value: Baroque principles of organization in contemporary Mexican American Arizona.