essay
'La vieja Inés,' a Mexican folk game: a research note
Twice a minority : Mexican American women • St. Louis, Missouri • Published In 1980 • Pages: 88-94
By: Limón, José Eduardo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents an analytical interpretation of the Mexican folkgame called 'La Vieja Inés' (the old woman Ines) or 'La Virgen Iné s (the virgin Ines), as played by girls in the Texas communities of Loreto and San Anselmo (both pseudonyms). The author describes the settings, the performers, and the performance of the game and suggests'…an enculturating function for this folkgame -- a function affecting language, kinship, and sex roles in Mexican working-class culture' (p. 88).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Games
- Childhood activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Loreto and San Anselmo (pseudonyms), Texas, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- José Limón
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-94)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80011177
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans