Hispano folklife of New Mexico
Subtitle: the Lorin W. Brown Federal Writers' Project manuscripts
By: by Lorin W. Brown, with Charles L. Briggs and Marta Weigle.
Contributors: Briggs, Charles L., 1953- joint author.; Weigle, Marta, joint author.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Brown, Lorin W., 1900-; Federal Writers Project.; Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Folklore.; Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Social life and customs.; Folklore -- New Mexico.; New Mexico -- Social life and customs.
Description: "For generations the remote villages of northern New Mexico lay virtually undisturbed, quietly passing through the predictable cycles of an agrarian society and preserving a colonial Hispanic culture unique to the United States Fortunately, many of the old traditions were preserved through the work of Lorin W. Brown who was born and raised in New Mexico. In the late 1930s he was employed by the New Mexico Federal Writers' Project to document the folklife of Hispanic northern New Mexico. Brown produced almost 200 manuscripts, all based on his interviews with many elderly residents of Cordova, Truchas, and other isolated communities., thus preserving an oral history stretching back to the late 18th century"--Amazon.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 259-270.
Includes index.