Anthropology in a postcolonial colony: Helen I. Safa's contribution to Puerto Rican ethnography.

Translation as Metaphor in Psychoanalysis, Anthropology and Ethnography, Postcolonial Theory, History and Literature

Malung and Marketing National Identities

ow everybody loves Puerto Rican culture,” observed a Puerto Rican schoolteacher and festival organizer, “but that’s exactly the problem. Now you have people that don’t know culture but are putting together events because it’s fashionable. That’s why we need the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, so people don’t devalue our culture.” Culture is certainly fashionable in Puerto Rico. In addition t...

Substance Use and the Number of Male Sexual Partners by African American and Puerto Rican Women

Background In the United States (US), there are 19 million new sexually transmitted disease (STD) infections each year. Untreated STDs can lead to serious long-term adverse health consequences, especially for young women. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that undiagnosed and untreated STDs cause at least 24,000 women in the US each year to become infertile. This clearly is a...

A Never Ending Journey: The Impossibilities of Home in Sirena Selena vestida de pena and Flores de otro mundo

Reconsiderations of home have been crucially examined in Caribbean cultural productions. As Jamil Khader argues in her article on “Subaltern Cosmopolitanism: Community and Transnational Mobility in Caribbean Postcolonial Feminist Writings,” Caribbean feminists are faced with the task of challenging a conventional idea of home that has historically located women and other marginal subjects under...

Measuring Matching Frictions in the Puerto Rican Labor Market

I investigate the role that matching frictions play in the Puerto Rican labor market. The search-theoretical models of the labor market which were developed in the 1980’s led to an explosion of empirical work in the search for evidence of the mechanisms that supported the theory. This paper seeks to measure the degree to which the Puerto Rican labor market is afflicted by congestion externaliti...