| Paisanos Contributor(s): Abernethy, Francis Edward (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1574410598 ISBN-13: 9781574410594 Publisher: University of North Texas Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1998 Annotation: The paisano, or roadrunner, is the emblem of the Texas Folklore Society chosen by the membership at the meeting held April 22, 1932, presided over by Jovita Gonzalez. This volume is liberally sprinkled with pictures of that fine bird, and it is written by paisanos, fellow countrymen in the realm of folklore. From the paisano's cactus corral by J. Frank Dobie to John Neal Phillips' exploration of the Anasazi; from Bill Brett's planting by the moon to the names of newspapers by C. Richard King; from Lawrence Clayton's fact and fiction in Lomax outlaw songs to home and farm remedies and charms in a German manuscript by Christine Boot; from a look at Sunday cock fights by F. E. Abernethy to the pet rock in American folklore by Olivia Murray Nichols, this miscellany shows the diversity of Texas folklore. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 398.2 |
| Series: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.33" W x 9.36" (1.10 lbs) 180 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The paisano, or roadrunner, is the emblem of the Texas Folklore Society. However, Paisanos is not a bird book--it is a folklore miscellany, a collection of essays on folklore generally, but mainly on Texas folklore. Paisanos covers a wide field of folklore, from the academic to the popular, from the scientific to the mystical, and from studies of uses of the past to practices in folklore that are still very much a part of our lives. |