This book highlights Franz Boas’s historic trip to Puerto Rico in 1915, which included the documentation of oral folklore. On that trip, a rising anthropologist involved in the project, John Alden Mason, collected one of the largest oral folklore collections from any Spanish-speaking country or territory. The stories, many of them written by rural cultural informants, the Jibaros, offer an outstanding view of an early twentieth century Puerto Rican identity.
This book highlights Franz Boas’s historic trip to Puerto Rico in 1915, which included the documentation of oral folklore. On that trip, a rising anthropologist involved in the project, John Alden Mason, collected one of the largest oral folklore collections from any Spanish-speaking country or territory. The stories, many of them written by rural cultural informants, the Jibaros, offer an outstanding view of an early twentieth century Puerto Rican identity.
RAFAEL OCASIO is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Spanish at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia.
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List of Illustrations Introduction: Retention and Reinvention of Puerto Rican Oral Folklore Tales 1 Porto Rico as a Colonial Scientific Laboratory: Documenting Puerto Rican Oral Folklore Part I: The Island of Porto Rico in the U.S. Public Eye Part II: Identifying Porto Rican Folklore: The Compilation Process 2 A Post-Spanish American War National Identity: Editing Puerto Rican Folktales in a Socio-Political Vacuum Part I: Arguing about La Raza and a Native Puerto Rican Culture Part II: Editing in a Socio-Political Vacuum: Personal and Professional Differences 3 Jíbaros' Authorship through Self-Literary Characterization Part I: A Countryside-inspired Folklore through Jíbaros' Authorship Part II: Juan Bobo and Other Native Picaresque Characters: Surviving the Rural Campo 4 Telling a Story about Class and Ethnicity through Fairy Tales, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas Part I: Expressing Jíbaro Cultural Values through Native Oral Folklore Part II: El campo as a Site of Puerto Rican Identity in Cuentos de encantamiento, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas puertorriqueñas
5 An (Un)colored Puerto Rican Culture: Unpublished Negro Fieldwork in Old Loíza Part I: Loíza as a Site of an Afro-Puerto Rican Culture Part II: Reconstructing A Post-Slavery Afro-Puerto Rican Popular Folklore: The Unpublished Field Notes
6 Tropicalizing the Puerto Rican Racial Past: The Quest of an Indian Area Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
List of Illustrations Introduction: Retention and Reinvention of Puerto Rican Oral Folklore Tales 1 Porto Rico as a Colonial Scientific Laboratory: Documenting Puerto Rican Oral Folklore Part I: The Island of Porto Rico in the U.S. Public Eye Part II: Identifying Porto Rican Folklore: The Compilation Process 2 A Post-Spanish American War National Identity: Editing Puerto Rican Folktales in a Socio-Political Vacuum Part I: Arguing about La Raza and a Native Puerto Rican Culture Part II: Editing in a Socio-Political Vacuum: Personal and Professional Differences 3 Jíbaros' Authorship through Self-Literary Characterization Part I: A Countryside-inspired Folklore through Jíbaros' Authorship Part II: Juan Bobo and Other Native Picaresque Characters: Surviving the Rural Campo 4 Telling a Story about Class and Ethnicity through Fairy Tales, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas Part I: Expressing Jíbaro Cultural Values through Native Oral Folklore Part II: El campo as a Site of Puerto Rican Identity in Cuentos de encantamiento, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas puertorriqueñas
5 An (Un)colored Puerto Rican Culture: Unpublished Negro Fieldwork in Old Loíza Part I: Loíza as a Site of an Afro-Puerto Rican Culture Part II: Reconstructing A Post-Slavery Afro-Puerto Rican Popular Folklore: The Unpublished Field Notes
6 Tropicalizing the Puerto Rican Racial Past: The Quest of an Indian Area Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
Index
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