El paso del cometa
Subtitle: estado, política social y culturas populares en Costa Rica (1800/1950)
By: Iván Molina Jiménez, Steven Palmer, editores.
Contributors: Molina Jiménez, Iván.; Palmer, Steven Paul.
Series: Colección Ensayos; Colección Ensayos (Editorial Porvenir)
Publisher: Editorial Porvenir; Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies
Published: 1994
Place of publication: San José, Costa Rica
Language: spa
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Deviant behavior.; Crime -- Costa Rica -- History.; Costa Rica -- Moral conditions.
Description: "A close look by social historians at the 'underside' of Costa Rican history, using many legal records as sources. Authors encounter variations of Costa Rican national culture, which seems less unified than previously characterized. Class/race/gender recur as thematics and cleavages in the essays, which cover rape and incest, prostitution, witchcraft charges, labor culture, the reaction to Halley's Comet (1910), and heroin use"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.