Costa Rican traditional knowledge according to local experiences : plants, animals, medicine and music /

Costa Rican traditional knowledge according to local experiences : plants, animals, medicine and music /

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Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Description:	xx, 161 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Science across cultures: the history of non-western science ; volume 8 Science across cultures ; v. 8.
Subject:	Ethnoscience -- Costa Rica. Ethnoscience. Costa Rica.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12406751

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Other authors / contributors:	Ortega Rodríguez, Manuel, 1970- editor. Solís-Sánchez, Hugo, editor.
ISBN:	3030061450 9783030061456
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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Call Number:	GN476 .C67 2019
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