Alí García-Segura

Strongly emerging Indigenous methodologies have attracted researchers to employ diverse research paradigms within a moral commitment to conducting research based on ethical sensitivities and appropriate research protocols, as informed by research work with marginalized and unfamiliar groups including Indigenous Communities. However, adopting Indige...

Analysis of the patterns of distribution, diversity, uses, and conservation status of the palm flora of Costa Rica.

This conceptual paper reflexively explores an emerging turn towards a dialectic engagement in the development of Indigenous methodologies, using insights from Bourdieu and Foucault in the deconstruction of discourses regarding hierarchies of positionalities, which are associated with the construction of epistemic authority. The paper draws on examp...

Gerardo Avalos, Olivia Sylvester, Milena Cambronero, Alí García-Segura Abstract. Costa Rica has one of the highest species concentrations in the world. The estimated number of species of all organisms is 500,000, which represents 5% of the world's biodiversity. This country has 111 palm species (approximately 4.26% of the world's total), of which...

Introducción: Este estudio fue una experiencia vivencial compartida con los habitantes del Territorio Indígena Bribri en las comunidades de Kácha’bli, Korbita y Amu’bli en el cantón Talamanca, Costa Rica. Fue parte de un esfuerzo para voltear la mirada hacia las necesidades del pueblo indígena bribri, tratando de hallar indicadores adecuados para e...

This article represents our collective reflexivity in the process of applying an Indigenous methodology in a North–South, cross-cultural collaboration, funded through the British Government’s Global Challenges Research Fund. The projects’ aim was to bring together Bribri and Jakun leaders (from Costa Rica and Malaysia) for constructive dialogues ab...

In the present transcribed, edited and annotated talk, ethnologist Alí García Segura, a member of the Bribri community of Coroma, delivers an important message exposing the contradictions of the educational system that result from the encounter of cultures. He aims to be the voice of those before him who were not heard, and his discussion invites u...

Although there is a growing interest in Indigenous research, education regarding how to put Indigenous research into practice is not often part of academic training. To increase the awareness of how Indigenous methodologies can be applied to academic research, we describe how we used Bribri Indigenous teachings to develop a Ph.D. research methodolo...

We contribute to a growing body of literature on wild food harvesting by examining culturally specific relationships with wild food, the extent and frequency of wild food use in forests, and young people’s wild food consumption. We gathered qualitative data in the Talamanca Bribri Territory, Costa Rica, using participant observation, interviews, an...

The gendered dimensions of wild food harvesting are often examined at the resource appropriation stage; to build on this literature, we examined gender and wild food harvesting across multiple wild harvesting stages from pre-harvest to food sharing. Using qualitative methods (participation, interviews, and group discussions) informed by Bribri Indi...

The gendered dimensions of wild food harvesting are often examined at the resource appropriation stage; to build on this literature, we examined gender and wild food harvesting across multiple wild harvesting stages from pre-harvest to food sharing. Using qualitative methods (participation, interviews, and group discussions) informed by Bribri Indi...

There is a vast literature on Bribri people's food harvesting, but this literature has largely overlooked how Bribri people interpret their food harvesting practices. Using a landscape ethnoecology approach, we worked with Bribri colleagues to describe forest food harvesting in one community (Bajo Coen) within the Talamanca Bribri Indigenous Territ...

Se presentan los resultados parciales de la aplicación de las pruebas de admisión de la Universidad de Costa Rica y del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Se comparan los resultados obtenidos por estudiantes de tres colegios indígenas con una prueba de razonamiento con figuras (PRF). Se encontraron evidencias de correlación entre la PRF con cada...