Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge According to Local Experiences Plants, Animals, Medicine and Music /

This book offers ten chapters dealing with Costa Rican traditional knowledge. Each chapter presents a transcription from a talk given to an interdisciplinary audience at Universidad de Costa Rica. The chapters address the links between knowledge and culture in a variety of cases, including black, in...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ortega-Rodríguez, Manuel (Editor), Solís-Sánchez, Hugo (Editor)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 8
Subjects:
Anthropology.
Ethnology > Latin America.
Culture.
Latin American Culture.
Online Access:Full-text access
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Summary:This book offers ten chapters dealing with Costa Rican traditional knowledge. Each chapter presents a transcription from a talk given to an interdisciplinary audience at Universidad de Costa Rica. The chapters address the links between knowledge and culture in a variety of cases, including black, indigenous and "white" knowledge in both rural and city contexts, with an emphasis on gender issues. This book is the first of its class and its transcriptions have been annotated for easier reading. All social scientists interested in Latin American culture or in cognitive topics in general will benefit from reading it.
Physical Description:XX, 161 p. 2 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9783030061463
ISSN:2215-1761 ;
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-06146-3

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