By Charles Tatum

ISBN-10: 1440800987

ISBN-13: 9781440800986

This three-volume encyclopedia describes and explains the range and commonalities in Latina/o tradition, offering entire insurance of quite a few Latina/o cultural forms—popular tradition, people tradition, rites of passages, and plenty of other kinds of shared expression.

• Serves as a great source for study that succinctly overviews myriad themes with regards to Latina/o cultural traditions that basic readers and highschool scholars will locate available and straightforward to use

• locations Latina/o traditions inside a old context to deepen comprehension of Latina/o culture

• offers an exploration of id, phrases, and labels in addition to sidebars, "spotlight" biographies, fundamental files, and proposals for added information

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