{"product_id":"dancing-with-the-devil-society-and-cultural-poetics-in-mexi","title":"Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexi","description":"\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0299142248\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Limon, Jose\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e new\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCombining shrewd applications of current cultural theory with compelling autobiography and elegant prose, José E. Limón works at the intersection of anthropology, folklore, popular culture, history, and literary criticism. A native of South Texas, he renders a historical and ethnographic account of its rich Mexican-American folk culture. This folk culture, he shows-whether expressed through male joking rituals, ballroom polka dances, folk healing, or eating and drinking traditions-metaphorically dances with the devil, both resisting and accommodating the dominant culture of Texas.Critiquing the work of his precursors- John Gregory Bourke, J. Frank Dobie, Jovita Gonzalez, and Americo Paredes-Limón deftly demonstrates that their accounts of Mexican-Americans in South Texas contain race, class, and gender contradictions, revealed most clearly in their accounts of the folkloric figure of the devil. Limón's own field-based ethnography follows, and again the devil appears as a recurrent motif, signaling the ideological contradictions of folk practices in a South Texas on the verge of postmodernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n        ","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49679201108208,"sku":"NEW0299142248","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/dancing-with-the-devil-society-and-cultural-poetics-in-mexi","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}