Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge According to Local Experiences

This book offers ten chapters dealing with Costa Rican traditional knowledge.Each chapter presents a transcription from a talk given to an interdisciplinary audience atUniversidad de Costa Rica. The chapters address the links between knowledgeand culture in a variety of cases, including black, indigenous and "white" knowledgein 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 willbenefit from reading it.