Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge According to Local Experiences Plants, Animals, Medicine and Music /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ortega-Rodríguez, Manuel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Solís-Sánchez, Hugo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 8
• Subjects: Anthropology.; Ethnology-Latin America.; Latin American Culture.

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...

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.