Américo Paredes
Biographic Data
| ID | 104628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Américo Paredes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Américo |
| FAMILY NAME | Paredes |
| SIGNATURE | PAREDES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9975-343X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Post-neoliberal bananas
Plantation Liberalism: A Genealogy of Personhood, Property, and Environmental Litigation between Philippine Mindanao and the Black Atlantic
Scholarship on the plantation has been broadly split into two ambits of concern. The first, emerging from the Black Atlantic tradition, has critiqued liberal humanist frameworks and the problematics of personhood in conjunction with histories of plantation slavery. The second, growing out of environmental anthropology and critical agrarian studies largely, but not exclusively, of the Global South, has concentrated on the ecological dynamics of re…
Trajectories in the Anthropology of Commodities
The Chain before the Commodity
How do you build supply chain logistics to facilitate a political idea and not merely the movement of goods? This essay offers a historical and ethnographic account of "people-to-people trade" (minshū kōeki) between Japanese and Filipino activists from the 1970s onward. In contrast to a vast majority of transnational chains designed foremost to facilitate the efficient circulation of commodities, people-to-people trade has seen its main thrust as…
Topographies of Fungibility: Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands
Japan is the only place in the world where bananas are marketed and priced by cultivation altitude. In the late 1980s, plantation managers sourcing the fruit from the southern Philippine region of Mindanao discovered a paradigm-shifting formula: the higher up one grew, the sweeter the bananas became. And the sweeter the bananas were, the closer they were to replicating the taste of colonial Taiwanese bananas, lost in the switch to Philippine supp…
Banana Ketchup
Banana ketchup is an iconic marker of Filipino cultural identity. Across the homeland/diaspora divide, the Filipino public celebrates the memory of Maria Y. Orosa, the food scientist, early immigrant to the American West Coast, and anti-Japanese guerrilla fighter, for her creation of the country’s favorite sauce or sawsawan. The history of this beloved food item is often recounted as a narrative of scientific innovation, anticolonial resistance, …
Experimental Science for the 'Bananapocalypse: Counter Politics in the Plantationocene
The plantation has become a landscape of political impossibility. Its industrial modes of production and scientific management pose existential threats to local lifeways, stymie social justice movements, and unleash persistent ecological harms. This article argues that a renewed scientific sensibility offers a way to expand local strategies for transformative political praxis in the face of other political constraints. It introduces the notion of…
The political work of food delivery: Consumer co-operative systems and women’s labor in “relationless” Japan
In recent history, the sudden visibility of food delivery services has alerted global publics to the labor asymmetries and the transformative potential of food transport in societies upended by change. Responding to these developments, this essay offers an ethnographic account of the gendered political economy of food distribution at the Green Coop Consumers Cooperative. A forerunner of the Japanese food movement, Green Coop and its delivery rout…
Weedy activism: Women, plants, and the genetic pollution of urban Japan
Along the ports of Japan, civilians have made a peculiar discovery: in a country where genetically modified (GM) crop cultivation is prohibited, wild canola weeds flourishing in the cracks of sidewalks are exhibiting the GM trait of herbicide resistance to Monsanto's infamous glyphosate. Able to enter the archipelagic country via unregulated channels and to cross-pollinate with locally grown crops, the weeds threaten to make inroads into the food…
The problem of mechanization: Craft, machines, and 'centering' in a Japanese Mingei pottery village
This article provides a conceptual basis for 'centering' the relationship between artisanship and mechanization as one would in pottery making. Critical theory dichotomizes handwork from machine-work, emphasizing the division between non-alienated and alienated labor, authenticity and inauthenticity, and experiential resonance and capitalist fetishism. The author demonstrates the theoretical shortcomings and social repercussions of these dualisms…
The Corrido: An invited Lecture at the "Music in Culture" Public lecture Series
This public lecture on the Mexican/Chicano corrido delivered by Professor Americo Paredes at UCLA May 13, 1981, was recorded during the event by Maria Herrera-Sobek. She recently transcribed and edited the public lecture specifically for its publication in this volume. The lecture presents an overall view of the Mexican/Chicano corrido. It expounds and offers original insights regarding its formal structure, theories about its origins, developmen…
In Memoriam Vicente T. Mendoza 1894-1964 Dedication
Other| October 01 1997 In Memoriam Vicente T. Mendoza 1894-1964 Dedication Américo Paredes Américo Paredes Austin. Texas AMÉRICO PAREDES. Emeritus Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. Professor Paredes is recognized as a leading authority on the corrido among scholars in the United States and abroad. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1997) 22 (1): vi–viii. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1997.2…
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border
Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border
Borderlands: From Conjunto to Chicken Scratch. Music from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and Southern Arizona
Hispanic Culture in the Southwest
Folklore and culture on the Texas-Mexican border
George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel
Episodes of guerrilla warfare, land grabs, racism, jingoism and abuses by the Texas Rangers make this an adventure novel as well as one of reflection on the making of modern day Texas
Folklore, Lo Mexicano, and Proverbs
Research Article| September 01 1982 Folklore, Lo Mexicano, and Proverbs Américo Paredes Américo Paredes Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Américo Paredes is Professor in the Department of English and in the Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Goog…
Hispano Folklife of New Mexico
Hispano Folklife of New Mexico
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero. Folksongs of the Lower Border
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border
Yamashita, Zapata, and the Arthurian Legend
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero, Folksongs of the Lower Border
Experimental Science for the 'Bananapocalypse: Counter Politics in the Plantationocene
The plantation has become a landscape of political impossibility. Its industrial modes of production and scientific management pose existential threats to local lifeways, stymie social justice movements, and unleash persistent ecological harms. This article argues that a renewed scientific sensibility offers a way to expand local strategies for transformative political praxis in the face of other political constraints. It introduces the notion of…
"The United States, Mexico, and "Machismo
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero, Folksongs of the Lower Border
The Chain before the Commodity
How do you build supply chain logistics to facilitate a political idea and not merely the movement of goods? This essay offers a historical and ethnographic account of "people-to-people trade" (minshū kōeki) between Japanese and Filipino activists from the 1970s onward. In contrast to a vast majority of transnational chains designed foremost to facilitate the efficient circulation of commodities, people-to-people trade has seen its main thrust as…
Weedy activism: Women, plants, and the genetic pollution of urban Japan
Along the ports of Japan, civilians have made a peculiar discovery: in a country where genetically modified (GM) crop cultivation is prohibited, wild canola weeds flourishing in the cracks of sidewalks are exhibiting the GM trait of herbicide resistance to Monsanto's infamous glyphosate. Able to enter the archipelagic country via unregulated channels and to cross-pollinate with locally grown crops, the weeds threaten to make inroads into the food…
The problem of mechanization: Craft, machines, and 'centering' in a Japanese Mingei pottery village
This article provides a conceptual basis for 'centering' the relationship between artisanship and mechanization as one would in pottery making. Critical theory dichotomizes handwork from machine-work, emphasizing the division between non-alienated and alienated labor, authenticity and inauthenticity, and experiential resonance and capitalist fetishism. The author demonstrates the theoretical shortcomings and social repercussions of these dualisms…
José Mosqueda and the Folklorization of Actual Events
Research Article| October 01 1973 José Mosqueda and the Folklorization of Actual Events Américo Paredes Américo Paredes English and Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1973) 4 (1): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1973.4.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
The "Decima" on the Texas-Mexican Border: Folksong as an Adjunct to Legend
Yamashita, Zapata, and the Arthurian Legend
The Ancestry of Mexico's Corridos: A Matter of Definitions
IN A RECENT ARTICLE in these pages' Merle E. Simmons re-examined chronology of Mexican corrido, making several points which deserve attention not only of scholars but of students of in general. first is that form known as Mexican is unique neither to Mexico nor to what has been called period, roughly from i86o's to I930's. Simmons shows that many of stylistic peculiarities of Mexican are occasionally found in Spanish romance; furthermore, he pres…
Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border
Concepts about Folklore in Latin America and the United States
The "Decima Cantada" on the Texas-Mexican Border: Four Examples
Lirica narrativa de Mexico: El corrido
Luis Inclan: First of the Cowboy Writers
"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero
Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled immediately, realizing that in practice there was one law for Anglo-Texans, another for Texas-Mexicans. The chase, capture, and imprisonment of Cortez are high drama that cannot easily be forgotten. Even …
"El Corrido de Jose Mosqueda" as an Example of Pattern in the Ballad
The Mexican Corrido as a Source for Interpretive Study of Modern Mexico (1870-1950)
Mexican Riddling Wellerisms
Gringo
"With His Pistol in His Hand"; A Border Ballad and Its Hero
Part One: Gregorio Cortez, the Legend and the Life Chapter I: The Country Nuevo Santander The Rio Grande people Mier, the Alamo, and Goliad The Texas Rangers Chapter II: The Legend How they sing El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez How Gregorio Cortez came to be in the county of El Carmen Roman's horse trade and what came of it How Gregorio Cortez rode the little sorrel mare all of five hundred miles How El Teco sold Gregorio Cortez for a morral full of…
Tag, You're It
Luis Inclan: First of the Cowboy Writers
The Ox Got Drunk with Blinders on
Corridos & Calaveras
Cantares historicos de la tradicion argentina
Corridos & Calaveras
The Ancestry of Mexico's Corridos: A Matter of Definitions
IN A RECENT ARTICLE in these pages' Merle E. Simmons re-examined chronology of Mexican corrido, making several points which deserve attention not only of scholars but of students of in general. first is that form known as Mexican is unique neither to Mexico nor to what has been called period, roughly from i86o's to I930's. Simmons shows that many of stylistic peculiarities of Mexican are occasionally found in Spanish romance; furthermore, he pres…
Texas' Third Man: The Texas-Mexican
American Extremes: Extremos de América
In this notable collection of essays, written in the middle of the twentieth century, a towering Mexican thinker discusses both Latin America's internal problems and its relations with the United States, Russia, and the rest of the world. This perceptive examination of many political and economic topics will be of interest to all readers concerned with what our southern neighbors think on subjects important to us. The author brings into particula…
Cuentos folkloricos de la Argentina
Treasure of the Sangre de Cristos: Tales and Traditions of the Spanish Southwest
American Extremes
American Extremes (Extremos de America)
Introduction Mexico's Crisis Mexico and the United States Russia, the United States, and Latin America The Problems of America Background of Tyranny Thoughts on Korea Politics and Political Economy in Latin America Latin America and the United States: Today and Tomorrow Mexico's Legendary Wealth The Chapultepec Conference (February 21-March 8, 1945) Index
Picardia Mexicana
Cuentos folkloricos de Chile
Legends of Texas
Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study in Survivals
Lirica narrativa de Mexico: El corrido
The "Decima Cantada" on the Texas-Mexican Border: Four Examples
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