Alegria, Ricardo E.
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Ball courts and ceremonial plazas in the West IndiesBook 1983
- Summary
- Ricardo Enrique Alegría Gallardo was a Puerto Rican scholar, author, cultural anthropologist, and archaeologist known as the "father of modern Puerto Rican archaeology". He was a professor at the University of Puerto Rico and the first director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. Alegria was the founder of the Museo de las Américas and of the Alpha Beta Chi fraternity. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
- Born
- 1921-04-14 [2][6]
- Birth Place
- San Juan (Puerto Rico) [2]
- San Juan [6]
- Died
- 2011-07-07 [2][6]
- Death Place
- San Juan (Puerto Rico) [2]
- San Juan [6]
- Country
- Puerto Rico [2]
- Language
- Spanish | Castilian [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [6]
- archaeologist [6]
- prehistorian [6]
- writer [6]
- Educated at
- Harvard University [6]
- University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus [6]
- University of Chicago [6]
- Country of Education
- United States [6]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [6]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. National Library of Korea
- 6. Wikidata
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