Overview
- Offers a multifaceted insight into the culture and traditional knowledge of Costa Rica
- Explores traditional knowledge relating to agriculture, botany, pharmacy and the arts
- Offers expert local insights from Costa Rican anthropologists
Part of the book series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science (SACH, volume 8)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Manuel Ortega-Rodríguez is Professor of Physics at Universidad de Costa Rica, where he has also held courtesy appointments in the Music, Literature and Architecture Departments. He lectures on History of Science, Ethnoastronomy, the Physics of Music and Language, Visual Intelligence for Physicists, and Complexity. He has co-authored a novel that explores the intersections of Art and Physics.
Hugo Solis is an assistant professor in the Physics Department at University of Costa Rica where he teaches the course in History of Science. His current research interests are computational cosmology, complexity and the cultural studies of scientific knowledge. He is a member of the Free Software Foundation where he has contributed code to some free software projects and is the author of the Kivy Cookbook from Packt Publishing. Currently, He is in charge of the IFT, a Costa Rican scientific non-profit organization for the multidisciplinary practice of physics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge According to Local Experiences
Book Subtitle: Plants, Animals, Medicine and Music
Editors: Manuel Ortega-Rodríguez, Hugo Solís-Sánchez
Series Title: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06146-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06145-6Published: 24 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-06146-3Published: 10 April 2019
Series ISSN: 1568-2145
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1761
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 161
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Anthropology, Latin American Culture