Altering the Walls of Domesticity: Late 19th Century Modifications to Households in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Author(s): Gelenia Trinidad-Rivera
Year: 2018
Summary
Urban archaeology can help us understand the evolution of specific habitational spaces and shed light to investigations related to domestic life and issues related to daily life necessities. This paper will trace the modifications completed to buildings within the walled city of San Juan in the late 19th century. A selection of structures was made based primarily on the permit requests and blueprints submitted to the local government which can be consulted at the Archivo General de Puerto Rico. Each case was supplemented with information taken from a variety of sources that include maps, photographs, census data and ownership records to develop a virtual map. Taking into consideration that space is an important component in the process of daily life choices, and the development of a domestic environment, this study will provide a connection between the people who occupied these buildings in the past and today.
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Altering the Walls of Domesticity: Late 19th Century Modifications to Households in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Gelenia Trinidad-Rivera. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 445405)
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Caribbean
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min long: -90.747; min lat: 3.25 ; max long: -48.999; max lat: 27.683 ;
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Abstract Id(s): 21268