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Western Folklife Center
Beyond Borderlands Project
Fieldwork Job Description

The Western Folklife Center seeks a Spanish-speaking fieldworker for an NEA funded project focusing on cultural traditions related to Mexican and Mexican-American ranch and vaquero (cowboy and horseman) culture in the U.S. Fieldwork will identify artists and artforms with historic or contemporary connections to this ethnic occupational community. Artforms might include handcrafted horse gear (saddles, bits, spurs, reins, ropes, belts), traditional music and songs (especially corridos), cooking, visual art, poetry, dichos, and other occupational ranch skills and folklife.

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// posted by Matthew Saunders @ 3/07/2007 05:08:00 PM