Líneas de investigación

Regional Cultural and Linguistic Studies

It compiles studies on daily life, artistic expressions, minority languages ​​and lifestyles of different regions. Furthermore, studies on identities, cultural diversity and cultural manifestations such as gastronomy, dance, art, literature, worldviews, social organization, traditions, imagery, material and intangible heritage and social representations. Likewise, it refers to studies about cultures and ethnic groups, processes of identity and history, interculturality, multiculturalism and transculturality.

Proyectos vinculados

History of San Ramón literature. I Period 836-B3-006

This project was based on the assumption that although San Ramón has historically been linked to literature as an identity marker, this correspondence had not been studied, nor had sufficient attention been paid to the...

Editorial mediations in the social development of Costa Rican literature: (2000-2018) 836-B9-007

The main objective of the Editorial Mediations in the Social Development of Costa Rican Literature (2000-2018) project is: to analyze the impact of the Costa Rican publishing industry on the processes of production, circulation, and...

The Military Band of Alajuela. Democratization of the musical appreciation and cultural development of its audience in 1933 836-B9-008

The wind and percussion bands of the government of Costa Rica have been protagonists in the musical and cultural development of the country. Several researchers have had to delve into the history of these groups...

Cultural practices related to the conservation, reproduction, and uses of ‘cohombro’ cucumber (Sicana odorifera) in different communities of the Western Region, Costa Rica 836-B9-051

The structure and composition of agricultural ecosystems depends on the economic and cultural needs and interests of their owners (Barrero & García, 2009). According to these authors, the new concepts that globalization has brought, in...

Etymological dictionary of characters from Greek mythology. Characters, symbols, and literature 836-B1-138

This linguistic investigation determines the etymology of Greek mythological names and draws up, from there, a dictionary with these names, in order to serve as a guide in the interpretation and analysis of the literary...

Narrative proposals of new Central American literature 836-B3-007

The project sought to identify some of the main trends in the region's narrative in the period that has been called the postwar period and which is characterized by the preeminence of a neo-liberal model...

Poets from San Ramon in the book “The Golden era in Costa Rican school songs" 836-B3-027

The project consisted of the compilation, analysis, recording and dissemination of twenty-six songs with lyrics by Ramonenses authors in the book Época de oro de la canción escolar costarricense. The main result is the recording...

Etymological dictionary of characters from Greek mythology. Characters, symbols, and literature. Second part 836-B5-021

This linguistic investigation determines the etymology of Greek mythological names and draws up, from there, a dictionary with these names, in order to serve as a guide in the interpretation and analysis of the literary...

Costa Rican Children’s Literature and its contribution to intercultural education: a didactic proposal 836-B4-012

Costa Rican children's literature constitutes a didactic opportunity to address issues related to interculturality, in this sense this research project proposes the definition of didactic proposals, in order for teachers to have support materials for...

Edition of the complete works of Carlomagno Araya 836-B5-203

This project prepares an edition of the Complete Works of the Ramonense writer Carlomagno Araya López. It is an editorial work in which all the poetic texts of the author are contemplated, as well as...

The discursive construction of utopia in the literary work of Carlos Gagini 836-B6-061

It is sought through cultural and literary studies to establish contact with a very significant part of the cultural heritage of humanity, precisely with the legacy of the classical world, which begins in Classical Antiquity...

Fabian Dobles in Costa Rican literary history 836-B7-151

Since 2015, under the initiative of the renowned writer's family, the Editorial of the University of Costa Rica considered it of wide national interest to carry out a new edition of the author's Complete Works...

The acquisition of Spanish as a mother tongue for Costa Rican children of preschool ages, second stage: morpho-syntactic aspects 836-B2-115

The project consisted of the analysis of four morpho-syntactic patterns in the spontaneous language of 15 children between 3 years and six months and 5 years and six months. A total of 53 files (at...

Edition of the complete works of Lisímaco Chavarría Palma 836-B3-701

The project consisted of carrying out a document compilation and recovery of the poems, essays and narrative texts of the Ramonense author who gave rise to the preparation of a critical edition in two volumes...

Tales of elves, scares, and apparitions: orality and construction of identities 836-B3-731

The project sought to recognize the relationship between orality and cultural heritage, in order to determine how the identity of western Costa Rica is constructed. This is achieved through the compilation of tales from the...

Costa Rican Children’s Narrative in the second half of the 20th Century 836-B4-010

The development of this research project is mainly justified by the need to offer the Costa Rican public and foreign public a rigorous study of the Costa Rican children's narrative of the second half of...

Intercultural learning in the didactic process of oral communication: analysis of the Global Classroom platform 836-B5-020

The purpose of the study was to analyze the didactic process of oral communication in the Global Classroom (belonging to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln), which has been used since 2010 in the Oral Communication III...

History of San Ramon literature. II Period 836-B7-037

In this second stage of the History of Ramona literature, the period corresponding to 1970-2018 is studied. 3 generations are analyzed: the Generation of the vanguard, the Generation of historical and cultural rescue from Ramón...

Conceptions about the divine in Lisimaco Chavarria and Jorge Luis Borges. From the universe to the multiverse. 836-B7-152

The project starts from a concern for the conception of the divine, by two authors Lisímaco Chavarría and Jorge Luis Borges who, separated in time and space, converge with common ideas, among which is the...

Local history and national Imaginary of San Ramon’s press. (1880-1916) 836-B8-001

The investigation analyzes the representations that the press of San Ramón made about local history and the national imagination during the period 1880-1916. These one hundred years of journalistic exercise meant an important period of...

Belizean Literature: history, approximations, and main trends 836-B8-004

This project aims to address an important gap in Central American literary historiography: the study of poetry produced in Belize. Due to multiple consequences of its history of English colonization, different from that of the...

Between resistance and oblivion. Strategies for preserving and strengthening of Creole in afro-descendant families 836-B8-197

Given that some studies agree that one of the minority languages ​​with the largest number of speakers in Costa Rica, namely Limone’s Creole, is clearly weakened for mainly socio-political reasons and that the younger Afro-Limonense...

Virtual reality as a museum tool to reconstruct the local history of San Ramón 836-C0-120

It is through new technological tools that this project aims to recreate virtual and interactive anthropological aspects and sites of cultural interest related to the evolution and development of the head of the canton of...

Cultural hybridization and formation of ethical awareness in students who attend schools in Guanacaste and San José 836-C0-329

This project addresses the problem of inquiry: Is there a relation between the cultural hybridization that some communities where schools are inserted experience and the formation of the ethical conscience in the students that attend...

Practices and speeches on Good Living present in the worldview of Afro-limonense communities 836-C0-309

By means of this project, we pretend to analyze the characteristics of Good Living present in the socio-cultural practices of the Afro-limonense population regarding the daily experiences of people in two communities of Limon: Limon...

Writing and dance movement as a potential scenario for autobiographical construction in elderly people 836-B9-148

An investigation is proposed on the contribution of art in self-reflection and in the reconstruction of history itself through autobiographical narration, in older adults in the canton of San Ramón. The possibilities that dance and...

Registration of the subjectivity through writing and dance movement: identities, fears, and experiences bound to adolescent existence 836-B7-345

Expression through artistic means involves self production that says something about the self and the environment in which one lives. An adequate reading of said production and of the subjective elements that constitute it, represents...

Designing and pre-Hispanic iconography of the Central Region of Costa Rica: the anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, figurative and geometric 836-C1-168

Since the eighties, in Costa Rica there hasn’t been published a single document that profoundly encompasses the pre-Hispanic iconography of archeological regions in which their characteristics based on site, phases, and region are determined. Michael...

Psychoanalytic perspective of the discourse contained in children’s artistic production in the San Ramón canton’s central region, in the 2021-2022 period. 836-C1-339

The project plans to explore the discourses that are built in and from childhood. Dance and writing are proposed as mediums of expression, and corporal and written narrative, two workshops will be developed (one about...

Designing of an interactive space based on a photographic registry on patrimonial buildings during the socio-political events in Central America in the decade of 2010 836-C2-073

The purpose of this research proposal is to document Patrimonial architecture of Central American countries from the decade between 2010 and 2020, which have been interfered with during protests and manifestations, with the designing of...

The Creole language use’s incident on Afro-Costa Rican people that migrated to the Great Metropolitan Area in the last two decades. 836-C2-311

This study is designed to dig into the experience lived by the Afro-Costa Rican population that has migrated to the GMA in the last two decades with relation in maintaining (or not) their Creole language...

The different types of keyboards, measurements, resonators and tuning of the marimba of Guanacaste. 836-C2-072

The research project traverses the cantons of the Guanacaste province to analyze, observe, and describe the assembling processes of two key elements of the marimba: the keyboard and the resonators. There seem to be keyboard...