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Donship in a Mexican-American community in Texasarticle 1960 • Romano-V., Octavio Ignacio
Chicanos • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This article presents an inclusive discussion of changing aspects of Chicano social mobility. Its specific focus is on the honorary title of 'Don' and those who are traditionally entitled to it as well as those who are capable of achieving it. Aspect...Charismatic medicine, folk-healing, and folk-sainthoodarticle 1965 • Romano-V., Octavio Ignacio
Chicanos • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This source discusses different types of folk-healers among Chicanos in Texas, noting the hierarchy of folk-healer statuses and illustrating the transformation of folk-healer into 'folk-saint' with the example of Don Pedrito Jaramillo (1829-1907), a ...The anthropology and sociology of the Mexican-Americansessay 1971 • Romano-V., Octavio Ignacio
Chicanos • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This essay is a critique of the books by William Madsen, Ruth Tuck, Lyle Sunders, Munro Edmonson, Rockwood Kluckhohn, Fred L. Strodbeck, Celia S. Heller, Julian Samora, and Richard A. Lamanna, for their prejudicial and racist depiction of the Mexican...