Dancing with the Devil Mexican-American S. Texas by Jose E. Limon paperback 1994

Description: eBay provided description:Combining shrewd applications of current cultural theory with compelling autobiography and elegant prose, Jose E. Limon works at the intersection of anthropology, folklore, popular culture, history, and literary criticism. A native of South Texas, he renders a historical and ethnographic account of its rich Mexican-American folk culture. This folk culture, he shows--whether expressed through male joking rituals, ballroom polka dances, folk healing, or eating and drinking traditions--metaphorically dances with the devil, both resisting and accommodating the dominant culture of Texas. Critiquing the work of his precursors-- John Gregory Bourke, J. Frank Dobie, Jovita Gonzalez, and Americo Paredes--Limon deftly demonstrates that their accounts of Mexican-Americans in South Texas contain race, class, and gender contradictions, revealed most clearly in their accounts of the folkloric figure of the devil. Limon's own field-based ethnography follows, and again the devil appears as a recurrent motif, signaling the ideological contradictions of folk practices in a South Texas on the verge of postmodernity.

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Educational Level: Adult & Further Education

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Features: References, Index

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Number of Pages: 266 Pages

Publication Name: Dancing with the Devil : Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas

Language: English

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Item Height: 0.8 in

Subject: Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Demonology & Satanism, Folklore & Mythology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year: 1994

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 12.7 Oz

Subject Area: Religion, Social Science

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Jose Limon

Series: New Directions in Anthropological Writing Ser.

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback