Mas Antes: Hispanic Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley - Softcover

Garcia, Nasario

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890133239 ISBN 13: 9780890133231

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Nasario García has edited and translated numerous collections of folklore, including Más Antes: Hispanic Folklore of the Río Puerco Valley (Museum of New Mexico Press) and Platicas: Conversations with Hispano Writers of New Mexico (Texas Tech). A former professor of languages at New Mexico Highlands University, he lives in Santa Fe. John Nichols is the author of The Milagro Beanfield War, among many works of fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890133239
• ISBN 13: 9780890133231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 187