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Puerto Ricoessay 1966 • Mintz, Sidney Wilfred
Puerto Ricans (Island) • Middle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
This is a study of culture, particularly its meaning to Puerto Rican society. Part I is a discussion of concepts. Parts II and III describe Puerto Rican culture in the context of island history, and Puerto Rico's place within the Caribbean region. Th...The culture history of a Puerto Rican sugar cane plantationessay 1972 • Mintz, Sidney Wilfred
Puerto Ricans (Island) • Middle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
Based on the data obtained from historical documents and aged informants, this article presents a reconstruction of the development of the sugar cane plantation system in Puerto Rico from the early nineteenth century to 1949, with the major focus on ...The Haitian peopleBook 1966 • Leyburn, James Graham & Mintz, Sidney Wilfred
Haitians • Middle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
Although written in 1941, this volume, by an American sociologist, still remains the definitive general introduction to a description of Haitian national culture and society through its analysis of those institutional and historical forces determinin...The people of Puerto Rico 1956 • Steward, Julian Haynes et al.
Puerto Ricans (Island) • Middle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
The objective of the series of monographs in this ethnographic survey is to analyze sociocultural variation in rural Puerto Rico, its historical modification and general processes of historical development. To clarify and refine the concepts and meth...