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PAISANOS
A FOLKLORE MISCELLANY
PAISANOS is not a bird book about paisanos, or
roadrunners. It is a folklore miscellany, a collec-
tion of essays on folklore generally, but mainly
on Texas folklore. The miscellany has long been
the natural form for publications of the Texas
Folklore Society. The paisanos, or fellow coun-
trymen of the Society, are a miscellaneous
group themselves. Their interests are as miscel-
laneous as they are, and the annuals are a means
of exchanging information and sharing it with an
interested public.
Paisanos begins, rightly enough, with J.
Frank Dobie's well-known article on paisanos
which the Society first published in 1954. The
rest of the book is divided into four sections: folk
tales, folklore in journalism, reflections on the
lore of the past, and some analyses of folklore
generally. It concludes with a listing and discus-
sion of publishers of Texas folklore.
The roadrunner motif is carried out by Linda
Miller Roach, whose sketches are used through-
out the book. The four different folklore sections
in the book are separated by photographic
studies of the Anasazi Indian pueblos, a small
town printing press, a country store, and cock
fighting.
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.
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Abernethy, Francis Edward. Paisanos: A Folklore Miscellany, book, 1978; Austin, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38864/m1/2/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.