Dictionary of Chicano Folklore
Publisher: ABC-Clio Inc
Published: June 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780874369533
Subjects: Folklore; Reference works; Mexican Americans; Hispanic American Sociology; Social Science; Reference; Sociology; Mexico; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Dictionaries - General; Folklore & Mythology; Dictionaries; Social life and customs
Description: Articles on the folklore and culture of Chicanos and Mexican Americans describe terms and concepts that represent folk speech and narrative, cultural tradition, and rituals practiced in the United States.
Notes: CONTENTS:
Abuelo (grandfather) -- Adelita (Mexican revolution woman soldier) -- Adivinanzas (riddles) -- Adobe -- Agreda Maria de Jesus coronel de (blue lady) -- Agringado (anglicized) -- Aguinaldos (Christmas gifts) -- Alabados (hymns) -- Alambrista (illegal border crosser) -- Altars -- Arizona folklore -- Ay vienen los Yankees! (here come the Yankees!) -- Aztlan -- Bailando con el diablo (dancing with the devil) -- Baile (dance) -- Ballet folklbrico -- La bamba -- Barbacoa de cabeza (barbecued beef head) -- Barrio -- Barriology -- Bato (dude) -- Bolillos (bread rolls) -- Bourke, Captain John Gregory -- Braceros (laborers) -- Brujeria (witchcraft) -- Burritos -- Cabeza de Baca, Fabiola -- Calavera (skeleton) -- Califas (california) -- California folklore -- Calo (Spanish slang) -- Campa, Arthur Leon -- Camposanto (cemetery) -- Canciones (songs) -- Capirotada (bread pudding pauper's grave) -- Carpas (tent theaters) -- Carreta de la muerte (death cart) -- Cascarones (decorated eggshells) -- Casos -- Chanes (water spirits) --Charreadas (rodeos) -- Charros (horsemen) -- Chavez, Cesar -- Chicanismo -- Chicano (-a) -- Chicano park -- Chicano Spanish -- Chili queens -- Chiquiao (poetic dance tradition) -- Chirrionera (mythical snake) -- Chistes (jokes) -- Cholos (-as) (1990s urban youth) -- Cinco de Mayo (fifth of May) -- Coco (bogeyman) -- Colchas (blankets) -- Colorado folklore -- Comadre / compadre -- Comanches -- Con safos (don't mess with this) -- Conjunto music -- Conquistadora (conqueress) -- Corrida de gallos (rooster game) -- Corrido de Gregorio Cortez (ballad of Gregorio Cortez) -- Corridos (ballads) -- Coyote -- Creencias (beliefs) -- Cucaracha (cockroach) -- Cucui (bogeyman) -- Cuentos (stories) -- Curanderismo (healing) -- Decimas (poetic narratives) -- Descansos (resting places) -- Dia de los muertos (day of the dead) -- Diablo (devil) -- Dichos (proverbs) -- Diez y seis de Septiembre (16th of September) -- Dobie, J. Frank -- Doce verdades (twelve truths) -- Doctor Loco's rockin' jalapeno band -- Don Cacahuate -- Dona Sebastiana -- Duendes (goblins) -- Empacho (indigestion) -- Espinosa, Aurelio Macedonio -- Fajitas -- Fandango (dance or party) -- Farolitos (little lights) -- Fiestas Guadalupanas -- Fiestas patrias (patriotic festivals) -- Filigree -- Flor y canto (flower & song) -- Folk art -- Folk dances -- Folk dramas -- Folk heroes -- Folk literature -- Folk songs -- Foodways -- Frijoles (beans) -- Gavacho (Anglo) -- Gestures  -- Gomez-Pena, Guillermo -- Gonzalez, Jovita -- Graffiti -- Greaser -- Greater Mexico -- Gringo (Anglo) -- Grutas (grottos) -- Guerrero, Eduardo Lalo -- Habito (priest's or nun's habit) -- Hilitos de oro (little threads of gold) -- Hispanic Culture Foundation -- Hispano culture -- Huelga (strike) -- Huesero (bone setter) -- I am Joaquin / yo soy Joaquin -- Indita (indian chant) -- Jacal (hut) -- Jamaicas (bazaars) -- Jaramillo, Cleofas Martinez -- Jaramillo, Don Pedrito -- Kermes (festival) -- Klicas (cliques) -- Kookooee (bogeyman) -- Leyenda negra (black legend) -- Leyendas (legends) -- Limpia (cleansing) -- Llorona (weeping woman) -- Los lobos (the wolves) -- Low rider -- Luminarias (bonfires) -- Machismo -- Mal ojo (evil eye) -- Malinche -- Mandas (promises) -- Mano negra (black hand) -- Mariachi music -- Matachines (dancers) -- Menudo (tripe stew) -- Mexicano -- Mexico lindo (beautiful Mexico) -- Mica (green card) -- Migra (immigration officials) -- Milagros (miracles) -- Mojado (wetback) -- Mollera, caida de (fallen fontanelle) -- Moradas (penitente chapels) -- Moros y Cristianos (Moors & Christians) -- Muerte (death) -- Muralismo (mural art) -- Murrieta, Joaquin -- Nacimiento (nativity scene) -- Naranja dulce (sweet orange) -- New Mexico folklore -- Nichos (niches) -- Ofrenda (offering) -- Onda Chicana (Chicano wave of music) -- Oremos (Christmas house visits) -- Oso, Juan -- Otero-Warren, Nina (Adelina) -- Pachuco cross -- Pachucos (-as) (1940s urban youth) -- Palomilla (group of friends) -- Papel picado (cut tissue paper) -- Paredes Americo -- Pastores (shepherds' play) -- Pedro de Urdemalas -- Pelado (plucked one) -- Penitentes (penitents) -- Pichilingis (elves) -- Pilon (bonus) -- Pinatas -- Pintos (-as) (prisoners) -- Placas (insignias) -- Pochismos (Americanisms) -- Pocho (half Mexican) -- Posadas (Christmas pageant) -- Quetzalcoatl -- Quinceanera (fifteenth birthday party) -- Quinto sol (fifth sun) -- Ranchera (country song) -- Rascuache (downtrodden folk) --  La Raza (the people) -- Relajo (joking behavior) -- Religious folk art -- Religious folk practices -- Remedios (remedies) -- Retablos (religious paintings) -- Rinches (Texas rangers) -- Rio Grande blankets -- Romance (sixteenth-century Spanish ballad) -- Santa Fe fiesta -- Santeros (saint makers) -- Santos (saints) -- Sarape (shawl) -- Sirena del mar (mermaid) -- Sobador (masseuse) -- Sopapillas (fritters) -- Spanish Colonial Arts Society -- Spanish market -- Straw applique -- Susto (shock) -- Tacos -- Tale of the lost mine -- Tamales -- Tatuaje (tattoo) -- Teatro campesino (farmworkers' theater) -- Tejano (Texan) -- Texas folklore -- Tin tan -- Tinwork -- Tio taco (traitor) -- Tiradito (outcast) -- Tirili (language of hoodlums) -- Tonantzin (Aztec goddess) -- Tortillas -- Urrea Teresa -- Vaqueros (cowboys) -- Vasquez tiburcio – La vida loca (the crazy life) -- Vieja ines y los listones (old mother game) -- Virgen de Guadalupe -- Wedding customs -- With his pistol in his hand -- Yard shrines -- Yardas (gardens) -- Zoot suit -- Zozobra.