"To me, the book is a fine, heart-warming example of collaboration
between an outsider anthropologist-folklorist and an insider
community inhabitant." -- Journal of Latin American Anthropology
"This book represents a significant contribution to the discipline
in that it raises important issues of ethnographic authority and
authorship.... Indeed, it could serve as a model for new ways to
write ethnography." -- Miguel Di az-Barriga, Associate Professor of
Sociology and Anthropology, Swarthmore College
When a ten-year-old boy befriends a mysterious hobo in his
southern Colorado hometown in the early 1940s, he learns about evil
in his community and takes his first steps toward manhood by
attempting to protect his new friend from corrupt officials. Though
a fictional story, Alex and the Hobo is written out of the life
experiences of its author, Jose Inez (Joe) Taylor, and it
realistically portrays a boy's coming-of-age as a Spanish-speaking
man who must carve out an honorable place for himself in a
class-stratified and Anglo-dominated society.
In this innovative ethnography, anthropologist James Taggart
collaborates with Joe Taylor to explore how Alex and the Hobo
sprang from Taylor's life experiences and how it presents an
insider's view of Mexicano culture and its constructions of
manhood. They frame the story (included in its entirety) with
chapters that discuss how it encapsulates notions that Taylor
learned from the Chicano movement, the farmworkers' union, his
community, his father, his mother, and his religion. Taggart gives
the ethnography a solid theoretical underpinning by discussing how
the story and Taylor's account of how he created it represent anact
of resistance to the class system that Taylor perceives as
destroying his native culture.
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