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 ...

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. ...

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 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 ...