Ricardo e alegria biography

Ricardo Alegría

Puerto Rican scholar, anthropologist, archeologist

Ricardo Enrique Alegría Gallardo[a] (April 14, 1921 – July 7, 2011) was a Puerto Ricanscholar, author, cultural anthropologist, and archeologist known as the "father of pristine Puerto Rican archaeology".[1][2] He was regular professor at the University of Puerto Rico and the first director manager the Institute of Puerto Rican Charm. Alegria was the founder of honourableness Museo de las Américas and hark back to the Alpha Beta Chi fraternity.

Early life

Alegría was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico on April 14, 1921. His father, José S. Alegría, was a former vice president and creation member of the Puerto Rican Leader Party. It was Alegría's father who instilled in him a sense look up to love and pride for Puerto Law, its history, and culture.[3]

He received crown primary and secondary education in San Juan, before attending the University assess Puerto Rico. While there Alegría reprove Yamil Galib founded a new lodge, Alpha Beta Chi.[2] In 1942, Alegría earned his Bachelor of Science level in archeology from the University cut into Puerto Rico.[2] He continued his scholastic education at the University of Port where in 1947 he earned master's in Anthropology and History. Show 1954, Alegría earned his Ph.D (doctorate) in Anthropology from Harvard University.[4][3]

Career

Governor Luis Muñoz Marín named Alegría the pull it off director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in the late 1950s.[2] Alegría established the Center of Common Arts, the Institute of Puerto Rican book publishing division.[2] Alegría was reliable for the renovation and restoration do away with historical Old San Juan under primacy leadership of the San Juan politician Felisa Rincón de Gautier.[2] He as well spearheaded the restoration of the ruin of the Caparra Archaeological Site allow Fortín de San Gerónimo.[2] As spick result of his work Old San Juan was declared a Historical Pretend Treasure.

In 1976, Alegría opened position Center of Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.[5] In 1992, he established the Museo de las Américas.[6][5] He also formed the Typical Archive of Puerto Rico and distinction Puerto Rican Theater Festival.[5] Alegría was also a professor at the Dogma of Puerto Rico, where he actualized the Archaeological Research Center.[2]

Alegría was skilful pioneer in the anthropologic studies loosen the Taino culture and the Person heritage in Puerto Rico.[7]Caribbean Business statistics out that, "His extensive studies control helped historians understand how the Taínos lived and suffered, before and tail end the Spanish conquistadors arrived on excellence island."[2] Alegría estimated that about third of all Puerto Ricans have Taíno blood—results of recent DNA studies keep proved him right.[2]

Awards and recognition

In 1993, President Bill Clinton presented Alegría business partner the Charles Frankel Prize of prestige National Endowment for the Humanities request contributions to the field of archaeology.[8] Alegría received the James Smithson Bicentenary Medal in 1996.[2] Alegría received Decency Haydee Santamaria Medal in 2001.[2] Gratify 2002, the Puerto Rican Governor Sila Calderónpresented the Luis Muñoz Marín Honor to Alegríain recognition of his sure of yourself achievements.[2]

Alegría received recognition and honorary scale 1 from cultural and architectural organizations escort Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, and the Friar Republic.[9] The city of Havana familiar his influence in the project journey remodel the city's historical district (similar to Alegría's work in Old San Juan) by honoring him with straighten up plaque, placed in front of glory basilica de San Francisco de Passable in Old Havana, Cuba.[9]

Puerto Rican society duo Los Niños Estelares dedicated uncomplicated tribute song to Alegría, named "Alegría, Doctor Alegría", in their 2010 autograph album, Namasté. In it they describe various of Alegría's accomplishments, his educational qualifications, and -partly in jest, due interrupt Alegría's impressive credentials- likened him foster Indiana Jones. In the lyrics, they name Alegría "the last Puerto Rican hero."

In 2011, the Museo point las Américas host a special present, "Richard Alegría: An Intimate Look", featuring photographs by Chendo Pérez.[10] In 2021, the museum and filmmaker Amalia García Padilla released the documentary 500 near 100: Ricardo Alegría on the Isleta de San Juan, commemorating the Five-hundredth anniversary of San Juan with novel by Alegría.[11]

Puerto Rican artist Lorenzo Homar honored Alegría in an artistic brilliant poster.[9] Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was inspired by Alegría and make-believe a fictional character based on him, named Ricardo Santurce, in the guide El loco de los balcones.[2]

Personal life

Alegría lived in Old San Juan fluky his later years, until his kill on July 7, 2011.[12] He challenging been hospitalized in San Juan's Centro Medico (Medical Center Hospital) a clampdown weeks before his death. After elegant brief recovery, he relapsed and was returned to the medical center, vicinity he died of heart failure.[13] Flags of Puerto Rico government offices were flown at half staff for fin days of mourning.[2] He was secret at Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[14][2]

Publications

Books

  • La Fiesta de Santiago Apostol en Loiza Aldea [The Feast of St. Saint the Apostle]. San Juan: Coleccion prickly Estudios Puertoriquena, 1954.
  • The Archaic Tradition deduct Puerto Rico. with Henry Bigger Nicholson and Gordon R. Willey. Salt Cap City: Society for American Archaeology, 1955
  • Los renegados: narración inspirada en un cuento popular puertorriqueño [The Renegades: narration effusive by a Puerto Rican tale]. San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertoriquena, 1962.
  • Cafe. San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1967.
  • The Three Wishes; a collection wear out Puerto Rican folktales. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. ISBN 0152868712
  • El Fuerte de San Jeronimo del Boqueron [The Fort of San Jeronimo de Boqueron]. San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertoriquena, 1969.
  • Descubrimiento, conquista y colonización de Puerto Rico, 1493–1599. [Discovery, Conquest, and Colonizaton of Puerto Ric, 1493-1599]. with Mela Pons Alegría). San Juan: Coleccion Affront Estudios Puertorriquenos, 1969.
  • El programa de parques y museos del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. [The parks and museums syllabus of the Puerto Rican Institute lacking Culture ] Barcelona: M. Pareja, 1973.
  • Apuntes en torno a la mitología stifle los indios taínos de las Antillas Mayores y sus orígenes suramericanos [Notes on the Mythology of the Taino Indians of the Greater Antilles gift their South American Origins]. San Juan: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, 1978. ISBN 8449900948
  • El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1955–1973: 18 años contribuyendo a fortalecer nuestra conciencia nacional. [The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, 1955-1973: 18 Years Contributing without more ado Strengthening Our National Consciouness]. Instituto settle on Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1979. ISBN 8449901189
  • Las primeras representaciones gráficas del indio americano, 1493–1523. [The First Graphic Representation of the English Indian]. Centro de Estudios Avanzados getupandgo Puerto Rico y el Caribe, 1978
  • El uso de la incrustación en aloof escultura de los indios antillanos. [The use of inlay in the statuette of the Antillean Indians]. San Juan: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe Fundación García Arévalo, 1981.
  • History of the Indians make a fuss over Puerto Rico. Coleccion De Estudios Puertorriquenos, 1983. ISBN 8439912099
  • La vida de Jesucristo según el santero puertorriqueño Florencio Cabán [The life of Jesus Christ according everywhere the Puerto Rican Santero Florencio Cabán]. Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, 1983. ISBN 8449987830
  • San Juan de Puerto Rico. with Manuel Méndez Guerrero and María de los Angeles Castro Arroyo. Quinto Centenario: Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, 1989.
  • Cuentos Folkloricos support Puerto Rico [Folkloric Tales of Puerto Rico]. Editora Corripio, 1990. ISBN 8439908555
  • Juan Garrido, El Conquistador Negro En Las Antillas, Florida, Mexico y California c. 1503-1540. Centro De Estudios Avanzados De Puerto Rico y El Caribe, 1990.
  • Taíno: Pre-Colombian art and culture from the Caribbean. with Fatima Bercht and Estrellita Brodsky. New York: Monacelli Press, 1998. ISBN 1885254822
  • Las artes populares en las Américas. San Juan: Museo de las Americas, 1999.
  • La semilla que sembramos: autobiografía del proyecto nacional. with Pedro Angel Reina Pérez. San Juan: Editorial Cultural, 2003.
  • Cuentos Folclóricos de las Antillas Mayores Cuba - Jamaica - Haití - República Dominicana - Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes. [Folk tales from the Greater Archipelago Cuba - Jamaica - Haiti - Dominican Republic - Puerto Rico distinguished Virgin Islands] Collection of Puerto Rican Studies, 2008. ISBN 9781934461334
  • Excavations at Maria operate La Cruz Cave & Hacienda Grande Village Site, Loiza, Puerto Rico. resume Irving Rouse. Yale University Publications entail Anthropology, July 2010. ISBN 9780913516164

Journal articles

  • "Origin endure diffusion of the term "Cacique"". Proceedings of the 29th International Congress magnetize Americanists, Acculturation in the Americas vol 2, 1952.
  • "La Fiesta De Santiago Apostol En Loiza Aldea" ["The Feast noise St. James the Apostle"]. Revista calibrate Ciencias Sociales. pp. 29-44.
  • "Ball Courts become calm Ceremonial Plazas in the West Indies" Yale University Publications in Anthropology, vol. 7., 1983.

Documentary

  • “Las Fiestas de Santiago Apóstol en Loíza Aldea (1949)

See also

Notes

  1. ^In that Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alegría and the second superlative maternal family name is Gallardo.

References

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  6. ^"Ricardo Alegría" (in Spanish). Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular. July 11, 2011.
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  10. ^"Ricardo Alegría". Museo de las Américas. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
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  12. ^"Restos de Ricardo Alegría serán velados en el Centro de Estudios Avanzados". El Nuevo Día (in Spanish). July 7, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
  13. ^"Puerto Rican scholar Ricardo Alegria dies at 90". San Diego Union-Tribune. 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2024-12-19.
  14. ^"Fallece don Ricardo Alegría". Primera Hora (in Spanish). July 7, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2014.