Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge According to Local Experiences

by Manuel Ortega-Rodríguez, Hugo Solís-Sánchez

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Description 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.

Author Biography

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. 

Details

  • ISBN 3030061450
  • ISBN-13 9783030061456
  • Title Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge According to Local Experiences
  • Author Manuel Ortega-Rodríguez, Hugo Solís-Sánchez
  • Format Hardcover
  • Year 2019
  • Pages 161
  • Edition 1st
  • Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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