Más Antes: Hispanic Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley: Hispanic Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley

Title: Más Antes: Hispanic Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley: Hispanic Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley
Author: Nasario García
I: 1709055
ISBN: 9780890133231
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
Published: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 224
Section: Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
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Publisher Description: Noted folklorist Nasario García has long devoted himself to preserving the folklore of his native Río Puerco Valley, the rural area northwest of Albuquerque. The places are abandoned today, but the richness of the valley's people and their folklore, intermingling with history, memory, and the tragedy and erosion of time, forms the heart of García's Más Antes. Recorded in English and regional New Mexico Spanish, this compilation of the oral and written culture of the Río Puerco includes dichos (sayings), adivinanzas (riddles), stories, love quatrains, letters, ballads, and songs within the context such forms were used by a society that, while modest in its means and largely uneducated, presented almost a formal gentility in the manner of its interactions.