Celebrating Latino folklore : an encyclopedia of cultural traditions

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Advisory Board

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Guide to related topics

Adivinanzas (riddles)

Adobe

African influence on Latino folklore

Afro-Colombian music

Agringado (anglicized)

Alabados

Alabanzas

Alambrista (undocumented border crosser)

Albóndigas (meatballs)

Albures

Altars

American Folklore Society (AFS)

Argentina and its folklore

Arora, Shirley Lease

Arroz con Leche (Rice Pudding)

Asian Contribution to Chicano/Latino Folklore

Aztec Empire

Aztlán

Bachata

Baez, Joan Chandos

Bailando con el Diablo (Dancing with the Devil Legends)

Bailes Latinoamericanos

"Ballad of Gregorio Cortez"

Ballet Folklórico: Azteca

Ballet Folklórico: Jarabe Tapatío

Ballet Folklórico: Michoacán

Ballet Folklórico: San Luis Potosí

Ballet Folklórico: Tabasco

Ballet Folklórico: Tamaulipas

Ballet Folklórico: Veracruz

Baptism

Barbacoa

Bato/a

Bautizo (Baptism): Rites, Padrinos, and Celebrations

Billy the Kid/ El Bilito

Birria

The Black Legend

Boggs, Ralph Steele

Bolivia and Its Folklore

Bomba

Boogie Woogie

Botánicas

Bourke, Captain John Gregory

Brazil and Its Folklore

Brazil, Myths and Legends from

Briggs, Charles Leslie

Brujería (Witchcraft)

Buñuelos

Burritos

Cabañuelas (Weather Prognostication)

Cabeza de Baca, Fabiola

Cabrito

Cadaval, Olivia

Caída de Mollera (Baby's Fallen Fontanel)

Calaveras (Skulls)

Califas (California)

Caló (Folk Speech). Campa, Arthur León

Canción Ranchera

Canción Romántica

Candles (Velas)

Canícula (Dog Days of Summer)

Cantâu, Norma E

Capirotada

Carne Asada

Casanova, Stephen (Steve)

Cascarones

Casitas

Castellánoz, Genoveva

Chalupas

Champurrado

Charms

Charreada

Charros (Horsemen)

Chicano/a Art and Folklore

Chicano/a Literature and Folklore

Chicano Spanish

Chicharrones

Children's Songs and Games

Chile and Its Folklore

Chiles (Peppers)

Chili Queens

Chimayó

Chirrionera

Cholos/Cholas

Christmas (Navidad)

Chupacabra

Cihuacóatl

Cinco de Mayo (May 5th)

Coatlicue

Colchas (Quilts/Quilting)

Colonial Art

Comadre/Compadre

Conjunto

Conjuro/Hechizo (Magic Spell)

Con Safos (C/S)

Corrido (Ballad)

Costa Rica and Its Folklore

Coyolxauhqui

Coyote

Cuaresma (Lent)

Cuban Americans and Their Folklore

Décima

Descansos

Día de la Raza

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

Día de los Muertos, Migration and Transformation to the U.S

Dichos (Proverbs)

Dickey, Dan William

Duendes

El Coquí

El Diablo (The Devil)

El Niño Fidencio (José Fidencio Síntora Constantino)

"El Niño Perdido" ("The Lost Child")

El Salvador and Its Folklore

El Tiradito (The Outcast)

Elotes

Embrujado/a

Empacho (Tripada or Pega)

Empanadas

Enchiladas

Espinosa, Aurelio Macedonio

Espíritus Malignos (Evil Spirits)

Fables

Fajitas

Fandango

Farmworkers' Theater

Feijoada

Flamenco

Flor y Canto

Folk instruments

Folk medicine

Folk narratives: Folk tales, legends, and jokes

Folk speech and folklore

Folk tales

Frijoles

Funerals

Funerary practices. George Washington's Birthday Celebration (Laredo, TX)

Ghosts

Goldberg, Harriet

González de Mirelas, Jovita

Gorditas

Gravemarkers

Graveyards

Greaser

Greater Mexico and Its Folklore

Green, Archie

Guacamole

Guerrero, Eduardo "Lalo"

Hip Hop

Hispano Culture

Holy Communion

Huelga (Workers' Strike)

Huesero (Bonesetter)

Huitzilopochtli

Iconotheophany

Indita Folksongs

Jaramillo, Cleofas M

Jaramillo, Don Pedrito

Jiménez, Santiago

Jokes (Chistes)

Juan el Oso (John the Bear)

Keller, John Esten

"La Adelita"

"La Bamba"

La Despedida (The Farewell)

La Llorona (The Wailing Woman)

La Santísima Muerte

La Siguanaba

La Vieja Inés y los Listones

Lamadrid, Enrique R

Las Posadas

Latina feminism and folklore in the United States

Latino National Heritage Award Fellows (1982-2011)

Lea, Aurora Lucero-White

Leal, Luis

Lengua

Limón, José

Limón, José Eduardo

Limpias (Cleansings)

Lomax, Alan

Lomax, John Avery

Los Lobos

Los Penitentes

Los Pleneros de la 21

Los Reyes Magos (The Three Kings)

Los Rinches

"Los Tejanos" (folk play)

Love and Rockets

Lowriders

Lummis, Charles F

Magia (Magic)

Maíz

Mal de Ojo (Evil Eye)

Malinche

Malverde, Jesâus

Mambo

Mandas and Juramentos

Mariachi

Matachines (folk performance)

Matrimonio and Pedida de Mano (Marriage and Engagement)

Maximón (San Simón)

McDowell, John Holmes

Mendoza, Lydia

Menudo

Merengue

Milagros

Mission art and architecture. Molas

Mole

Morcillas

"Moros y Cristianos" (folk play)

The Motif-Index of Folk Literature

Murieta, Joaquín

Myths

Nachos

Nacimientos

Nájera-Ramírez, Olga

Narcocorridos

Nicaragua and Its Folklore

Nicolopulos, James

Niños Héroes de Chapultepec (Boy Heroes of Chapultepec)

Nuyorican Poets Café

Otero-Warren, Nina

Pachucos

Pachuquismo: 1940s Urban Youth

Paella

Pan Dulce (Mexican Pastry)

Panama and Its Folklore

Paper Arts (Papel Picado, Papier Mãaché, and Kites)

Paredes, Américo

Parsons, Elsie

Partera (Midwife)

Pastorelas (Shepherds' Plays)

Pedro de Urdemalas

Peladito (Pelado)

Pelea de Gallos (Cockfighting)

Peru and Its Folklore

Pilgrimages (Peregrinaciones)

Piñata

Pinole

Plena

Pochismos

Pocho/a

Pozole

Puerto Rico and Its Folklore

Pulque

Quesos

Quetzalcóatl

Quinceañera

Quinto Sol

Race Records

Rael, Juan Bautista

Rascuache

Rebolledo, Tey Diana

Rebozo

Reggae

Reggaetón

Relajo

Religious Folk Art

Retablos

Ridge, John Rollin

Robb, John Donald

Romance

Rosca de Reyes

Rumba (Rhumba). Sahagâun, Bernardino de

Saints (Santos)

Saint's Day (Día de Santo)

Salsa

San Lorenzo, Feast Day of

Santería

Santiago, Feast Day of

Santo Niño de Atocha (The Holy Child of Atocha)

Sarape

September 16 (Mexican Independence Day)

Soldado, Juan

Sopas (de Arroz, de Fideos)

Spain and Its Folklore

Spirirt Possession and Exorcism

Strachwitz, Chris

Susto

Tacos

Tamales

Tandas and Cundinas

Tango

Tattoos (Tatuajes)

Teatro de Carpas

Tequila

Texas Folklore Society

Tezcatlipoca

Tín Tán

Tin Work

Tío Taco

Tonantzin

Tonantzín in Chicana Literature and Art

Torta de Camarón

Tortas

Tortilla

Treviño, Jacinto

Urrea, Teresa

Valdez, Luis

Vaquero

Vásquez, Tiburcio

Vejigantes

Venezuela and Its Folklore

Verbal Dueling

Virgin of Guadalupe: History and Fiestas Guadalupanas

Wakes

Wedding Customs

West, John O

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Yard Shrines

Yerbero/a

Zavaleta, Antonio Noé

Zoot Suit

Zorro, Legend of

Appendix 1: Medicinal plants used in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Appendix 2: Films relevant to Latino folklore

Appendix 3: Web resources for Latino folklore

Bibliography

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