The construction of the Other in the process of conquest of America in the sixteenth century, despite its multidimensionality could be summed up in one constant: the ranking of Spanish “Self”, through the establishment ...

In an interactionist perspective this work analyzes the multiple relations among different groups and factions of the indigenous community of Té- rraba and a hydrological project. Cooperation and conflicts of indigenous ...

This article explores the architectural specificities of Agua Caliente de Cartago (C-35AC), an archaeological site located in the Costa Rica’s central area. This community, circa 600 A.D., was an ideological-political ...

Pedagogy inside universities has a colonizing role. This explains the discomfort of indigenous communities towards the academy, as well as the research in the universities. This article shares some experiences of the ...

In this article we deal with historic and architectural heritage in the city of Alajuela as the expression that transmits a thought through its physical exposure and the social imaginary of what makes it a patrimony. 

The present article approaches different types of impacts of social and cultural nature that the hydroelectric project El Diquís (PHED) generates to the indigenous population in the region of Buenos Aires de Puntarenas, ...

This article contextualizes the importance of semiotics on a general level next to Archaeology. It also uses semiotics as basis for the development of an interaction model in Costa Rica during the Formative Period (2.000-300 ...

The Cubujuquí archaeological site was surveyed using electrical resistivity and magnetometry geophysical methods in order to investigate the results of these methods over a paved causeway that had been discovered during ...

This is an analytical progress report on the data of the “Diccionario de objetos arqueológicos y etnológicos de Costa Rica”, a project supported by the Office of the Vice Rector of Research of the University of Costa Rica. ...