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 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 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. 

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 ...