02615nam a22003857a 4500 pucpr 20240926171603.0 052912s20002003txuab bi s001 0 eng 99050899 0292747142 pbk. : alk. paper 9780292747142 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET F1410 L69 2003 307.3/216/098 21 Low, Setha M. 247934 On The Plaza : the politics of public space and culture. / by Setha M. Low. txt 1st ed. United States of America : University of Texas Press , 2003. xx, 274 p. ill. ; maps ; 23 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Include index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-266) Contents: List of Illustrations ix -- Preface xiii -- Acknoledgements xvii -- Part I: Intytroduction -- Chapter 1: Notes from the Field 3 -- A Personal Account -- Chapter 2: Public Space and Culture 31 -- The Case of The Latin American Plaza -- Part II: Histories -- Chapter 3: The History of the Plaza in San Jose, Costa Rica 47 -- The Political Symbolism of Public Space -- Chapter 4: The European History of the Plaza 84 -- Chapter 5; The Indigenous History of the Plaza 101 -- The Contested Terrain of Architectural Representations -- Part III: Ethnographies -- Chapter 6: Spatializing Culture 127 -- The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space -- Chapter 7: Constructing Difference 154 -- The social and spatial boundaries of everyday life -- Chapter 8: Public Space and protest 180 -- The Plaza as Art and Commodity -- Part IV: Conversations -- Chapter 9: The Park and The Plaza in Costa Rica Literature 207 -- Imagined Places -- Chapter 10 Conversations on the Plaza 219 Remembered Places -- Chapter 11: Public Spaces, Politics and Democracy 238 -- Appendix: Recent Costa Rican Presidents and Their Terms 248 -- Bibliography 249 -- Index 267 -- Plazas Latin America History. 27033 LEMB Plazas Costa Rica San José History. 27033 LEMB Latin American 123476 Social life and customs Manners and customs 130357 Latin America 297008 Civilization San José (Costa Rica) Civilization 273046 San José (Costa Rica) Social life and customs 273046 lcc 6 1st ed. F1410 General L69 2003 227125 227125 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2012-05-29 Amazon 23.90 495050 0 General F1410 L69 2003 91000000027334 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 33.90 2012-05-29 6