The Chilian Folk-Lore Society and Recent Publications on Chilian Folk-Lore, etc.
1910; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 23; Issue: 89 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/534549
ISSN1535-1882
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America
ResumoAs far back as 1905, Dr. Rodolfo Lenz, of Santiago, well-known philologist and ethnologist, sought to organize study of Chilian folk-lore by formation of a Comisi6n de Folklore and publication (first as an Appendix to Anales de la Universidad de Chile, and then reprinted as separates) of a Revista de Folklore Chileno. The idea was set forth, with a syllabus of subjects to be investigated, in Dr. Lenz's Ensayo de Programa para Estudios de Folklore Chileno (Santiago, 1905, 12 p.). In this Programa, rubrics of which were confined technically to Spanish Chilians, although, as author remarked (p. 5), study of that folk-lore is largely impossible without a knowledge of folk-lore of Indian population, following topics for investigation were enumerated: folk-literature in poetry and prose, music and dancing, plastic and ornamental arts, customs and beliefs, folk-speech, etc. Under these larger headings were listed numerous subdivisions, among more interesting of which were myths and legends, tales of monsters (such as huallipenes, nirivilo, chueiquehueczi, calchona, camahueto, imbunches, caleuche, cueros or mantas, etc.) and humorous tales (e. g., Pedro Urdemales); religious feasts and festivals (such as various festivals of Nativity, Easter, Holy Week, etc.; festival of Virgin of Andacolla; festival of San Pedro in Talcahuano, and others relating to sailors and fishermen); children's plays and games (like chapitas or pallalla, rayuela, luche, chincol, cututun-peuco, etc., with their accompanying songs, etc.); games of adults (such as chueca, cancha de bolas, naipes, cacho, maraca, etc.); folk-food and cookery, lore relating to Chilian plants (maiz, papa, porotos, zapallo, cochayuyo, luche, etc.; preparations of charqui, chuchoca, chuto, etc.; national drinks and beverages, particularly various chichas; stimulants, such as tabaco, coca, latter in northern provinces); folk-medicine; etc. Of special interest to folk-lorist is study of process of Chilianizing of Indians, which has now been going on for so long a time; also effect of contact of races upon language, habits, etc., of population of European descent. This proposal of I905 really belongs in 1894, when Dr. Lenz, in an article contributed to Anales de la Universidad de Chile, with title of Ensayos filol6jicos americanos II, suggested something quite similar. On x 8th of July, 1i909, when was founded the Chil-
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