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 indigenous people of Térraba has been considered to be one of the most transculturized indigenous people in Costa Rica. In recent years, nevertheless, a gradual revitalization process of the cultural identity and ethnic ...

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. ...

This work discusses the changing social roles of women from the Bribri and Boruca indigenous people located in the Central Valley region of Costa Rica. Ethnographic data collected over several years from women who have ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...