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Show 206 fishnets, and demonstrate other techniques of home industries. A popular arts store, in an administration building, would sell articles made in the museum, as well as articles brought from all parts of the country, thus ensuring fair treatment of manufacturer and buyer alike. A restaurant would cater to the public, specializing in typical dishes of the country. Entertainment in the form of dances, music, and storytelling would be scheduled throughout the year. Such museums would forcibly bring home to people of the cities the cultural richness of their country's varied ethnic heritage, and would also afford opportunity to governments to demonstrate to the people brought from rural areas the advantages of proper diet, hygiene, medical treatment, and so forth. The second part of the article suggests an outline which might be followed in Mexico, as illustrative of the application of the idea to a specific country. 1952 Editorial, "Exposicion Interamericana de Artes e Industrias Indigenas y la Conferencia de Seguridad Social," America Indigena, XII, No. 4 (October, 1952), pp. 267-270. The editorial talks about a speech delivered by Dr. M. Gamio, the director. It concerns the Inter-American Exposition of Indian Arts and Crafts and the IV Meeting of the Inter-American Conference of Social Security, held recently in Mexico. 1953 Carvalho Neto, Paulo de (Brasil), "El Problema del Folklore del Indio," America Indigena, XIII, No. 3 (July, 1953), pp. 175-185. English summary: With this paper the author tries to show the present situation of the studies regarding the Folklore limits concerning the "primitive." He considers the attitudes and opinions of those against or in favor of an Indian Folklore. Those in favor are: Ralph Steele Boggs, H. Callaway, MacCall Frazer, American Folklore Society, Gomme, Antti Aarne, Walter Anderson, Schmidt, Ismael Moya, Ortega Ricaurte, Gustavo Barroso, Basauri, Jover Peralta, Raffaele Corso, and the author. Those against are: Bruno Jacovella, Jijena Sanchez, California Folklore Quarterly, George Herzog, Imbelloni. There must be of course many other sources to be consulted. But the example here shown gives us a clear idea of the state of inconsistency and effervescence which the subject still holds. Beyond his reasons for accepting an Indian Folklore, the author, at the end, holds that such folklore can only be revealed, if investigated through the technique used in the folklore research. Such a technique is already distinguished from the ethnography research. When the Folklore use the materials of the Indian culture, collected by ethnologists, the use will have to be extremely careful, This is the way which the author himself hopes to be doing in his: "Introduccion al Folklore del Paraguay y sus Proyecciones Esteticas" --a work in preparation. |