El Estado nacional y los indígenas: el caso de Talamanca y Guatuzo. Costa Rica 1821-1910

Resumen Explora la forma y el momento en que se inicia y se desarrolló al consumo del café en la sociedad costarricense, con el fin de determinar la relación entre el consumo de café y sociabilidad identataria y reconocer los factores que contribuyeron al crecimiento de consumo interno. Abstract The author explores how and when coffee consumption developed in Costa Rican society in order to determine the relationship between coffee consumption, sociability, and identity, and highlight the factor which contributed  to the growth of domestic consumption.

Artistic Expression: Another Challenge for Rural Education

This paper identifies the parameters required to create opportunities that would strengthen the social fabric and would promote a comprehensive development through the artistic expression as a method for expressing feelings and constructing –cultural and social– identities as individuals, which, in our global context have been eroded by the homogenization of experiences.