The Ticos
Subtitle: culture and social change in Costa Rica
By: Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz, Richard Biesanz, Karen Zubris Biesanz.
Contributors: Biesanz, Richard.; Biesanz, Karen Zubris.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Costa Rica.
Description: Written with the perspective of more than a half-century of firsthand observation, this social and cultural history describes how Costa Rica's economy, government, educational and health-care systems, family structures, religion, and other institutions have evolved and how this evolution has affected - and reflected - people's daily lives, their beliefs, and their values.

The authors are particularly concerned with change and continuity since the economic crisis of the early 1980s and the structural adjustment that followed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-292) and index.