Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science (Bd. 8)
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	24. 04. 2019
Seiten	:	156
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	235 mm
Breite	:	155 mm
ISBN	:	9783030061456
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Manuel Ortega-Rodríguez is Professor of Physics at Universidad de Costa Rica, where he has also held courtesy appointments in the Music, Literature and Architecture Departments.  He lectures on History of Science, Ethnoastronomy, the Physics of Music and Language, Visual Intelligence for Physicists, and Complexity. He has co-authored a novel that explores the intersections of Art and Physics. Hugo Solis is an assistant professor in the Physics Department at University of Costa Rica where he teaches the course in History of Science. His current research interests are computational cosmology, complexity and the cultural studies of scientific knowledge. He is a member of the Free Software Foundation where he has contributed code to some free software projects and is the author of the Kivy Cookbook from Packt Publishing. Currently, He is in charge of the IFT, a Costa Rican scientific non-profit organization for the multidisciplinary practice of physics. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Everyday and Ceremonial Bribri Songs.- Percussion Music of the Atlantic Coast.- Botanical Knowledge and Ethnomedicine Among the Bribri.- Zoological Classification in the Bribri Culture.- Ethnoagriculture: What Can we Learn from Farmers?.- Abortion, Sterilization and Medical Necessity in Costa Rica.- Lunar Ethnoastronomy of the Bribri.- Gender Relations in Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge.

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