Box 13
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Ruben Cobos, recorder, October 22, 1975
Item — Box: 13, CD: Lect 26
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>Lecture on Cuentos Preciosos (poor recording, gravelly voice, in Spanish, unable to make out many of the words).
Dates:
October 22, 1975
Ruben Cobos, recorder, September 22, 1976
Item — Box: 13, CD: Lect 27
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Lecture to his Spanish class on archaismos (fair to poor recording, in Spanish, you can hear Cobos but some words are hard to understand, recording starts with him checking the names of the students in class, he talks about points for their grade, then he talks about the elements of the Spanish language in New Mexico, the words and expressions surviving from the Spanish past, not changed over time, archaic elements, words from Spain that came to New Mexico, in later years the Academia Real de...
Dates:
September 22, 1976
Ruben Cobos, recorder, October 6, 1976
Item — Box: 13, CD: Lect 28
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Lecture for his class, on Spanglismos, Spanglish (good recording, in Spanish, it opens with him talking to his students about their exam and what it will cover, then he refers to and reviews the previous lecture on Inglesismos or how English terms or words entered in the Spanish language of New Mexico, then follows with how Mexican terms entered into the Spanish language of New Mexico, Mexicanismos. This started before the coming of the Americans, came from Spanish and Mexican interaction along...
Dates:
October 6, 1976
Ruben Cobos, recorder, September 8, 1976
Item — Box: 13, CD: Lect 29
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Continuation of a lecture on Mexicanismos or Mexican words in the Spanish language of New Mexico (fair to good recording, in Spanish, volume is too low, but you can still hear him, it is hard to make out some of the words, he gives examples of words, verbs from Mexico; he refers to a dictionary of mexican words, mexicanismos, by Francisco Santa Maria, a thick big book that he liked and use, then Cobos refers to a list that he has given the class, that students are to bring to class that week;...
Dates:
September 8, 1976
Ruben Cobos, recorder, September 24 1976
Item — Box: 13, CD: Lect 30
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Lecture for his class on Nahuatlismos (fair to good recording, talk on Nahuatl or Aztec words entering into the Spanish language, words from ancient Mexico, in the first part of the recording Cobos is telling the students a story about a man who was getting old but was give twenty more years to live by La Muerte, by Death, who had come to visit him and would come back for him in twenty years, just before the twenty years were up he told his wife, a viejecita, to tell Death that he had gone to...
Dates:
September 24 1976
Ruben Cobos, recorder, June 30, 1964
Item — Box: 13, CD: Lect 31
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Presentation on Elementos Constituyentes de la civilizacion espanola for an Instituto program, elements of Spanish civilization in New Mexico (poor to fair recording, in Spanish, in the beginning you can barely hear him and later on it is a bit better, he is talking about the history and meaning of religious folk traditions in New Mexico, customs, celebrations, including luminarias and the pinata and its symbolism, etc.).
Dates:
June 30, 1964
Ruben Cobos, recorder, July 6, 1964
Item — Box: 13, CD: Lect 32
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Presentation on Elementos Constituyentes de la civilizacion espanola (in Spanish, seems like a continuation of the previous program, poor to fair recording, at first you can barely hear him, later it is a little bit better, Cobos is talking about the Spanish traditions of New Mexico, brought into and maintained in the Hispanic families and communities of New Mexico, some from Spain, some from Mexico, some developed locally, examples, one is the mariachis, songs, role of the Catholic Church and...
Dates:
July 6, 1964
Ruben Cobos, recorder, n.d.
Item — Box: 13, CD: Lect 33
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Lecture on the traditions of La Navidad or Christmas in New Mexico (poor to fair recording, in Spanish, it is possible to hear him but it is difficult to make out some words, traditions of los Pastores, examples of songs, alabados, Las Posadas, Luminarias, etc.)
Dates:
n.d.
Ruben Cobos, recorder, n.d.
Item — Box: 13, CD: Lect 34
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Lecture for Spanish Department series, talking about Spanish Folklore in New Mexico or Folklore Espanol (good recording, the first part of the recording appears to be the start of another program about Latin America or Argentina. Cobos probably recorded this lecture over the top of that one. A bit further into the tape is the actual beginning of his talk on Spanish Folklore in New Mexico, introduction by Dr. Sabine Ulibarri, UNM Spanish Department, Cobos begins with a very brief overview of the...
Dates:
n.d.
Ruben Cobos and family photographs, n.d.
Item — Box: 13, CD: 35
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Set of 8 color scans given to the CSWR by the Cobos family in 2012, images of Ruben Cobos, his wife Elvira, and their children.
Dates:
n.d.