Puerto Rico Culture
Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives
The period between 1868 and 1898 was crucial to the development of Puerto Rican political institutions: it witnessed apro-independence rebellion, colonial reform, the establishment of the first national political parties, the abolition ofslavery (in 1873), and a short-lived experiment in autonomy under Spanish rule. These events occurred at a time whenPuerto Rico had become a heterogeneous society with a well-established national culture manifested in vernacularlanguage, music, architecture, and other arts. The majority of its approximately seven hundred thousand inhabitantslived in extreme poverty, and agriculture--the island's main source of income--was severely limited by poorinfrastructure (lack of adequate roads, railroads, and seaport facilities) along with lack of modern equipment andmachinery to support the sugarcane industry. While some 85 percent of the population remained illiterate, theintellectual minority was relatively active within the limitations imposed by the local S ... [Read More]
Caribbean Prehistory, SEAC
Around the fourth century B.C., a new migration of people, whose culture exhibited traits of ceramics, agriculture, and sedentism, occurred from mainland South America northward up the Lesser Antilles (including the area now containing Virgin Islands National Park and Buck Island Reef National Monument) and west into Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. This culture, termed the Saladoid culture, appears to have established itself initially in the southernmost Lesser Antilles as early as 500 B.C., and reached the area of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico by 345 B.C. Radiocarbon dates for these two island areas indicate the Saladoid period, or Cedrosan sub-series, lasted from ca. 345 B.C. - A.D. 545. The relatively rapid movement of the Saladoid culture into the Lesser Antilles and the eastern half of the Greater Antilles appears to have displaced the earlier lithic period cultures as far as Cuba, where up until contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century, a pre-ceramic culture, called the C ... [Read More]
PUERTO RICO RECORDINGS IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide . We would be most interested in learning of Puerto Rico collections that might be suitable for addition to the Archive of Folk Culture. ... Finding Aids to Collections Organized by Topic in the Archive of Folk Culture ... The Archive of Folk Culture has recently received twenty-seven 7-inch tapes and seven 5-inch tapes of songs and instrumentals recorded in Puerto Rico by Henrietta Yurchenco, 1967-79. This collection is as yet unaccessioned and uncataloged. ... [Read More]
Puerto Rico in 1898
By 1867, Puerto Rico had 656,328 inhabitants; its population recorded as 346,437 whites and309,891 "of color" (this category included blacks, mulattos and mestizos). Out of thisheterogeneity, a sense of national culture had been established, as represented in music, the arts,colloquial language, and architecture. The majority of Puerto Ricans lived in extreme poverty andagriculture--the main source of income--was limited by lack of roads, rudimentary tools andequipment, and natural disasters--such as hurricanes and periods of drought. While illiteracy was83.7 percent, the intellectual minority remained relatively active within the limitations imposed bylocal Spanish authorities. ... [Read More]
Document Index: Environmental Impact of Sustainable Offshore Cage Culture Production in Puerto Rico
Environmental Impact of Sustainable Offshore Cage Culture Production in Puerto Rico Cabarcas, Alston, Rapp, Bennetti, O'Hanlon, Ayzavian, Cortes ... [Read More]
CIA - The World Factbook -- Costa Rica
agriculture 20%, industry 22%, services 58% (1999 est.) ... agriculture: 8.5% ... deforestation and land use change, largely a result of the clearing of land for cattle ranching and agriculture; soil erosion; coastal marine pollution; fisheries protection; solid waste management; air pollution ... [Read More]
Document Index: Environmental Impact of Sustainable Offshore Cage Culture Production in Puerto Rico
Environmental Impact of Sustainable Offshore Cage Culture Production in Puerto Rico Cabarcas, Alston, Rapp, Bennetti, O'Hanlon, Ayzavian, Cortés ... [Read More]
Puerto Rico at the cutting edge of offshore aquaculture
As part of this project with cutting edge technology, the National Sea Grant Program has provided economic support to a group of researchers to culture the fry at The Aquaculture Center of the Florida Keys, Inc. Mr. Loyal Eldridge is the President of the company and works in collaboration with Dr. Daniel Benetti, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. The University of Puerto Rico also received National Sea Grant funds to conduct a study to carefully monitor the environmental impact of cage culture in surrounding waters. This project is led by UPRM Dr. Alexis Cabarcas and UPRM Dr. Dallas E. Alston, and Dr. Patrick Rapp from UPRM Department of Physics. In addition, the University of Puerto Rico has been authorized for funding from the NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, to be used for similar environmental monitoring as well as to determine the social impact of cage culture in terms of community support, perceptions, attitudes, and possible confli ... [Read More]
EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
Even very young students know, and may occasionally use, words that are Spanish in origin — rodeo, tortilla, lasso, and chihuahua, to name a few. And many are able to count from 1 to 10 in Spanish, due in large part to early exposure to the language provided by children's television programming. This sense of familiarity with Spanish, combined with the excellent language acquisition skills possessed by students in this age group, will help make this unit on Spanish culture an exciting but comfortable experience for your class. Students will learn about families in various Spanish cultures and gain a preliminary knowledge of the Spanish language, learning the Spanish names for various family members. ... [Read More]
Caribbean Prehistory
The Casimiroid Culture has been proposed to have originated from Lithic or Archaic period cultures from either the Yucatán or Central America. It is presumed the people of this culture migrated by sea from the mainland to western Cuba via a Mid-Caribbean chain of islands, which is now submerged. They spread eastward through Hispaniola Island, where the earliest known sites of this culture are dated at about 6,900 years ago (6,000 rcbp). Recent investigations in a rock shelter on Mona Island have uncovered a Casimiroid-like assemblage of lithic tools, with an appropriate radiocarbon date of approximately 4,380 rcbp (4,975 years ago). Only one Puerto Rican site, the Cerrillo site in the extreme southwestern part of the island, exhibits Casimiroid-like lithic artifacts. The implications are that the Casimiroid culture came into the western end of the Greater Antilles and spread eastward only as far as extreme western Puerto Rico. ... [Read More]
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