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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ocasio, Rafael, author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Description:	viii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical Caribbean studies Critical Caribbean studies.
Subject:	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. 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. Puerto Rico. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12409435

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ISBN:	9781978810211 1978810210 9781978810204 1978810202 9781978810235 9781978810228 9781978810242
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 perform field research in the areas of anthropology and ethnography there while other scientists explored the island's natural resources. Native Puerto Rican cultural practices were also heavily explored through documentation of the island's oral folklore. A young anthropologist working under Boas, John Alden Mason, rescued hundreds of oral folklore samples, ranging from popular songs, poetry, conundrums, sayings, and, most particularly, folktales. Through extensive excursions, Mason came in touch with the rural practices of Puerto Rican peasants, the Jíbaros, who served as both his cultural informants and writers of the folklore samples. These stories, many of which are still part of the island's literary traditions, reflect a strong Puerto Rican identity coalescing in the face of the U.S. political intervention on the island. A fascinating slice of Puerto Rican history and culture sure to delight any reader!"--

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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