Aprovechándose de las oportunidades: buscando el momento oportuno para contraer matrimonio entre la población esclava de Puerto Rico a través del Siglo XVIII

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Autore principale: David M. Stark
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contents Aprovechándose de las oportunidades: buscando el momento oportuno para contraer matrimonio entre la población esclava de Puerto Rico a través del Siglo XVIII David M. Stark Estudios Culturales slaves Puerto Rico matrimonies eighteenth century liturgical calendar The observance of religious proscriptions associated with theliturgical calendar affected the timing of marriages, while labordemands of the agricultural economy influenced the seasonalityof marriages. For instance, formal unions throughout theSpanish Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, were traditionallyfrowned upon during certain periods of the liturgical year, suchas the penitential seasons of Lent and Advent. Along with thetiming of these, patterns of labor and leisure were also importantin shaping the seasonality of formal unions. This study seeks toexplain when slaves aspiring to marry in the eighteenth-centuryPuerto Rican communities of Arecibo, Caguas, Coamo, andYauco owed more to the exigencies of the agricultural calendarthan to the proscriptions of the liturgical calendar. Marriagestypically occurred in anticipation or following the planting andharvesting of the island’s principal cash crop-tobacco, and/orin consideration of the labor demands associated with animalhusbandry. 2005 artículo científico 0008-6533 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39233107 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=392 Caribbean Studies application/pdf Universidad de Puerto Rico Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico) Num.1 Vol.33
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spellingShingle Aprovechándose de las oportunidades: buscando el momento oportuno para contraer matrimonio entre la población esclava de Puerto Rico a través del Siglo XVIII
David M. Stark
Estudios Culturales
slaves
Puerto Rico
matrimonies
eighteenth century
liturgical calendar
Aprovechándose de las oportunidades: buscando el momento oportuno para contraer matrimonio entre la población esclava de Puerto Rico a través del Siglo XVIII David M. Stark Estudios Culturales slaves Puerto Rico matrimonies eighteenth century liturgical calendar The observance of religious proscriptions associated with theliturgical calendar affected the timing of marriages, while labordemands of the agricultural economy influenced the seasonalityof marriages. For instance, formal unions throughout theSpanish Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, were traditionallyfrowned upon during certain periods of the liturgical year, suchas the penitential seasons of Lent and Advent. Along with thetiming of these, patterns of labor and leisure were also importantin shaping the seasonality of formal unions. This study seeks toexplain when slaves aspiring to marry in the eighteenth-centuryPuerto Rican communities of Arecibo, Caguas, Coamo, andYauco owed more to the exigencies of the agricultural calendarthan to the proscriptions of the liturgical calendar. Marriagestypically occurred in anticipation or following the planting andharvesting of the island’s principal cash crop-tobacco, and/orin consideration of the labor demands associated with animalhusbandry. 2005 artículo científico 0008-6533 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39233107 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=392 Caribbean Studies application/pdf Universidad de Puerto Rico Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico) Num.1 Vol.33
title Aprovechándose de las oportunidades: buscando el momento oportuno para contraer matrimonio entre la población esclava de Puerto Rico a través del Siglo XVIII
topic Estudios Culturales
slaves
Puerto Rico
matrimonies
eighteenth century
liturgical calendar
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39233107