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In the present transcribed, edited and annotated talk, anthropologist Uri Salas Díaz discusses how environmental knowledge among the Cabécar and the Bribri is expressed through their mythology. His talk is about floods, natural disasters, and agricultural systems, but it is at the same time an account of myths and fantastic characters, and even of encoded social relationships. He describes thus a fascinating body of knowledge that does not fit neatly in our Western categories of “science” or “literature.”
U. Salas Díaz is the author of the original talk. M. Ortega-Rodríguez and H. Solís-Sánchez were responsible for transcribing, translating, editing and annotating the talk, including the vignettes; their comments appear within square brackets.
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Salas Díaz, U. (2019). Environmental Views Among the Cabécar and the Bribri. In: Ortega-Rodríguez, M., Solís-Sánchez, H. (eds) Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge According to Local Experiences. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06146-3_6
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