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BSA. Border Studies Archive

 Record Group
Identifier: BSA
A collection focused on the folklore, histories and lives of people living along the U.S.-Mexican border in South Texas, including aural, visual and material documentation.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Border Music

 Collection
Identifier: BSA-003
Scope and Contents

The Border Music Collection is comprised of interviews with artists and commercial music recorded locally. Collection materials range from norteña, orquesta regional, conjunto, and banda music to electronic and techno hybrid genres like nor-tech (norteño-techno) – each reflecting borderlands cultural formations.

Dates: dates vary
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus / Border Music

Curanderismo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BSA-008
Abstract The Curanderismo Collection is comprised of materials from the College of Health Sciences and Human Services. Curanderismo, or folk healing, involves a trained healer, or curandero(a), who treats a person experiencing physical or spiritual illness.Dr. Robert Trotter (Medical Anthropologist) and Juan Antonio Chavira (Medical Sociologist/Anthropologist) produced the curanderismo materials in a project during the late 1970s in South Texas. The project, "Proyecto Comprender" served...
Dates: -
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus / Curanderismo Collection

Contaminación Collection

 Collection — Other ~400B
Identifier: BSA-009
Scope and Contents

The collection contains non-privileged files pertaining to litigation regarding petroleum hydrocarbon contamination of properties on and around 23rd Street and Business 83 in McAllen, Texas. Documents include trial transcripts and proceedings, technical research and reports, and witness testimony relating to the southern and northern plume cases.

Dates: -
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus / Contaminación Collection

Spanish Land Grants

 Collection
Identifier: BSA-006
Scope and Contents

Life histories of local families and traces of their land acquisition to first European contact in the borderlands.

Dates: -
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus / Spanish Land Grants

Traditional Mexican American Folklore

 Collection — BSA 1
Identifier: BSA-001
Scope and Contents

A bilingual collection featuring over 100,000 items ranging from topics such as La Llorona, curanderismo, the chupacabra and the devil at the dance hall.

Dates: -
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus / Traditional Mexican American Folklore

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