Culture And Customs Of Puerto Rico

Author : Javier A. Galván
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313351204

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Culture and Customs of Puerto Rico by Javier A. Galván Pdf

This exciting addition to the Culture and Customs of Latin America and the Caribbean series provides readers with an all-encompassing look at contemporary life in Puerto Rico. Having always been under the watchful eyes of other colonies and countries, Puerto Rico's own customs and traditions have managed to flourish throughout the ages, culturally uniting what is a politically divided island. In addition to gaining an understanding of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the continental United States, students can explore extensive narrative chapters that cover contemporary religion, cuisine, sports, media, cinema, literature, performing arts, and visual arts. An essential for high school and public library shelves, Culture and Customs of Puerto Rico is the perfect research resource for students and general readers. This exciting addition to the Culture and Customs of Latin America and the Caribbean series provides readers with an exhaustive look at contemporary life in Puerto Rico. Having always been under the watchful eyes of other colonies and countries, Puerto Rico's own customs and traditions have managed to flourish throughout the ages, culturally uniting what is a politically divided island. In addition to gaining an understanding of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the continental United States, students can explore the small island nation's history with Spain during the colonial era. This fascinating volume provides illustrative narrative chapters on religious practices in Puerto Rico, as well as religious and secular festivals. Social customs, such as sports, cuisine, gender issues, family values, and nightlife, are discussed in depth. Extensive coverage on the media, performing arts, cinema, visual arts, and literature provides students with a solid foundation in Puerto Rican past and contemporary culture. An essential for high school and public library shelves, Culture and Customs of Puerto Rico is the perfect research resource for students and general readers.

Author : Hilda Iriarte
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1982205962

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Puerto Rico, a Unique Culture by Hilda Iriarte Pdf

Puerto Rico, a Unique Culture: History, People and Traditions is a delightful and enjoyable must-buy book about this Caribbean island, written from the viewpoint of Puerto Rican author Hilda Iriarte. Recent events have placed the island in the news. Learn about its unique history, the people that have distinguished themselves as firsts in their fields, some of its traditions, and relevant facts. You will learn much more to be able to understand the culture and the love of the people for their island. Learn about the many Puerto Ricans that have distinguished themselves in the world with their tenacity, hard work, and distinct personalities, having to sometimes rise above difficult odds.

Author : Elizabeth Krajnik
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538327050

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The People and Culture of Puerto Rico by Elizabeth Krajnik Pdf

Culture can be defined as the beliefs, practices, and arts of a group of people. The culture of Puerto Rico is as varied and intricate as the many people who live there. Readers will learn that before the arrival of the Spanish, Puerto Rico was called Boriquen by the Taínos. They will also learn that it has the only tropical rain forest in the U.S. Forest System, and that it isn't an island. Puerto Rico's culture is shaped by the landscape, resources, and its rich history. Emphasizing Puerto Rico's contributions to sports, arts, music, and literature, this book offers a comprehensive look at the country and its people. Augmented by colorful photographs, this high-interest take on curricular social studies subjects is sure to hold readers' attention.

Author : María Teresa Babín
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Puerto Rico
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041408159

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The Puerto Ricans' Spirit by María Teresa Babín Pdf

Author : Erinn Banting
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778793346

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Puerto Rico - The People and the Culture by Erinn Banting Pdf

Introduces the history, religions, holidays and festivals, arts, sports, languages, and literature of Puerto Rico.

Author : Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781469608846

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Eating Puerto Rico by Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra Pdf

Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. Ortiz shows how their production and consumption connects with race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and cultural appropriation in Puerto Rico. Using a multidisciplinary approach and a sweeping array of sources, Ortiz asks whether Puerto Ricans really still are what they ate. Whether judging by a host of social and economic factors--or by the foods once eaten that have now disappeared--Ortiz concludes that the nature of daily life in Puerto Rico has experienced a sea change.

Author : Nancy Morris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313389283

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Puerto Rico by Nancy Morris Pdf

This book uses historical and interview data to trace the development of Puerto Rican identity in the 20th century. It analyzes how and why Puerto Ricans have maintained a clear sense of distinctiveness in the face of direct and indirect pressures on their identity. After gaining sovereignty over Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898, the United States undertook a sustained campaign to Americanize the island. Despite 50 years of active Americanization and another 40 years of continued United States sovereignty over the island, Puerto Ricans retain a sense of themselves as distinctly and proudly Puerto Rican. This study examines the symbols of Puerto Rican identity, and their use in the complex politics of the island. It shows that identity is dynamic, it is experienced differently by individuals across Puerto Rican society, and that the key symbols of Puerto Rican identity have not remained static over time. Through the study of Puerto Rico, the book investigates and challenges the widely-heard argument that the inevitable result of the export of U.S. mass media and consumer culture throughout the world is the weakening of cultural identities in receiving societies. The book develops the idea that external pressure on collective identity may strengthen that identity rather than, as is often assumed, diminish it.

Author : Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780814758175

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Boricua Pop by Frances Negrón-Muntaner Pdf

Boricua Pop is the first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and identity formation in the U.S. and at home. Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved American musical West Side Story to the phenomenon of singer/actress/ fashion designer Jennifer Lopez, from the faux historical chronicle Seva to the creation of Puerto Rican Barbie, from novelist Rosario Ferré to performer Holly Woodlawn, and from painter provocateur Andy Warhol to the seemingly overnight success story of Ricky Martin. Negrón-Muntaner traces some of the many possible itineraries of exchange between American and Puerto Rican cultures, including the commodification of Puerto Rican cultural practices such as voguing, graffiti, and the Latinization of pop music. Drawing from literature, film, painting, and popular culture, and including both the normative and the odd, the canonized authors and the misfits, the island and its diaspora, Boricua Pop is a fascinating blend of low life and high culture: a highly original, challenging, and lucid new work by one of our most talented cultural critics.

Author : Jorge Duany
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861479

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The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move by Jorge Duany Pdf

Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places--the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952. Jorge Duany uses previously untapped primary sources to bring new insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism, and migration. Drawing a distinction between political and cultural nationalism, Duany argues that the Puerto Rican "nation" must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities. He documents a strong sharing of culture between island and mainland, with diasporic communities tightly linked to island life by a steady circular migration. Duany explores the Puerto Rican sense of nationhood by looking at cultural representations produced by Puerto Ricans and considering how others--American anthropologists, photographers, and museum curators, for example--have represented the nation. His sources of information include ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews, surveys, censuses, newspaper articles, personal documents, and literary texts.

Author : Carmelo Esterrich
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822983453

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Concrete and Countryside by Carmelo Esterrich Pdf

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. A curious paradox ensued, however. While the island underwent rapid urbanization, and the rhetoric of economic development reigned over official discourses, the newly installed insular government, along with some academic circles and radio and television media, constructed, promoted, and sponsored a narrative of Puerto Rican culture based on rural subjects, practices, and spaces. By examining a wide range of cultural texts, but focusing on the film production of the Division of Community Education, the popular dance music of Cortijo y su combo, and the literary texts of Jose Luis Gonzalez and Rene Marques, Concrete and Countryside offers an in-depth analysis of how Puerto Ricans responded to this transformative period. It also shows how the arts used a battery of images of the urban and the rural to understand, negotiate, and critique the innumerable changes taking place on the island.

Author : Juan Flores
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Arts, Puerto Rican
ISBN : 0231110774

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From Bomba to Hip-hop by Juan Flores Pdf

Flores investigates the historical experience of Puerto Ricans in New York, reflecting their varied areas of cultural expression in the diaspora against the background of contemporary debates in Puerto Rico and recent developments in cultural theory. Close studies of urban space and performance, popular musical styles, and Nuyorican literature highlight the complexities and contradictions of Latino identity.

Author : Brenda Domínguez-Rosado
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443882095

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The Unlinking of Language and Puerto Rican Identity by Brenda Domínguez-Rosado Pdf

Language and identity have an undeniable link, but what happens when a second language is imposed on a populace? Can a link be broken or transformed? Are the attitudes towards the imposed language influential? Can these attitudes change over time? The mixed-methods results provided by this book are ground-breaking because they document how historical and traditional attitudes are changing towards both American English (AE) and Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS) on an island where the population has been subjected to both Spanish and US colonization. There are presently almost four million people living in Puerto Rico, while the Puerto Rican diaspora has surpassed it with more than this living in the United States alone. Because of this, many members of the diaspora no longer speak PRS, yet consider themselves to be Puerto Rican. Traditional stances against people who do not live on the island or speak the predominant language (PRS) yet wish to identify themselves as Puerto Rican have historically led to prejudice and strained relationships between people of Puerto Rican ancestry. The sample study provided here shows that there is not only a change in attitude towards the traditional link between PRS and Puerto Rican identity (leading to the inclusion of diasporic Puerto Ricans), but also a wider acceptance of the English language itself on this Caribbean island.

Author : Edna Acosta-Belén
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038066796

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The Puerto Rican Woman by Edna Acosta-Belén Pdf

In this revised and expanded second edition of The Puerto Rican Woman, Acosta-Belen has collected the most current interdisciplinary studies covering a variety of perspectives on the status of the Puerto Rican woman.

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9784145319654

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Introduction to Puerto Rico by Gilad James, PhD Pdf

Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island and an unincorporated territory of the United States. The island is located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the British Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico has a tropical climate and is known for its beautiful beaches and crystal-clear waters, making it a popular tourist destination. The island is densely populated, with over three million people living there, making it the third-largest island by population in the United States. Puerto Ricans are citizens of the United States and have been since 1917. The island has a unique cultural mix of African, Taíno, and European influences. The official language is Spanish, and English is also widely spoken. Puerto Rico's economy is mainly based on manufacturing, tourism, and services. The island has a distinct political status, remaining as an unincorporated territory and not being granted statehood or independence.

Author : Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher : Palabra
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306814528

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When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago Pdf

Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.