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
Table of Contents:
  • Everyday and Ceremonial Bribri Songs
  • Percussion Music of the Atlantic Coast
  • Botanical Knowledge and Ethnomedicine Among the Bribri
  • Zoological Classification in the Bribri Culture
  • Ethnoagriculture: What Can we Learn from Farmers?
  • Abortion, Sterilization and Medical Necessity in Costa Rica
  • Lunar Ethnoastronomy of the Bribri
  • Gender Relations in Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge.

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