A Jíbaro Shack in the Mountains
Description
Aerial view of a mountainous area between the towns of Adjuntas and Utuado, where there is a wooden house on stilts. The house has a gabled zinc roof, a simple wooden door and double wooden windows. In the front of the house and door, it has wooden stairs.| Origin Name |
CAJ_0001_F0001_R
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| Relation |
Archivo de Arquitectura y Construcción de la Universidad de Puerto Rico > Colección Carol F. Jopling > Caja 1 -Fotografías
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| Geographical Coverage |
Municipio desconocido | Unknown Municipality
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| Date |
1946
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| Descriptive Notes |
The title, date and address were provided by the Architecture and Construction Archive of the University of Puerto Rico (AACUPR). The original photo it found in the General Archive of Puerto Rico (n. 113). On the back of the image, there are handwritten notes that read: "Between Adjuntas and Utuado, Puerto Rico january, 1946 a 'jíbaro shack in the mountains," "Fig. P. 113, CAJ|0009|F0001." There are repeated photos of the same houses among the files of this collection because they document different photographic formats created for the research project led by Carol F. Jopling, which were taken on different instances in which they were visited (example: 35mm negatives, color, black and white, instant photography, photos that were clarified or with contrast).
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| Descripción decolonial |
Here the viewer sees a bird’s eye view of a lush mountain side between Adjuntas and Utuado. In the foreground we see a small wooden house on stilts, with a zinc gabled roof and humble wooden door. The house on the hill recalls romanticized representations of the Puerto Rican countryside, commonly employed in touristic propaganda, and echoed throughout the Caribbean region. A small wooden hut in a bucolic tropical landscape served as a bias-affirming vision of the Caribbean as simplistic and undeveloped. The conceits of that vision would have had particular interest for the collector, anthropologist, and chief librarian at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Carol Jopling. The scene operates as document as well as a generative construct, which produces a colonialist representation of Puerto Rico for the viewer’s consumption even as it hints at a vernacular discourse of architecture that might undermine narratives of modernization and industrialization in the United States´ insular empire.
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| Rights |
English Rights. (hyperlink)
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| Editor |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
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| Resource Format |
JPEG
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| Resource Type |
Image
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