"Quinto centenario y ciencias sociales"

Abstract

Exposes that on the Fifth Centennial the intelligentsia vociferates their claims to vindictive. It indicates that it is difficult to digest and remember the genocide of five centuries ago, but that at least it allows us to forget, at least for a moment, the genocide that is perpetrated today against the poor peoples of the planet. He points out that in Costa Rica the commemoration of the Fifth Centennial, from an "indigenizing" perspective, is ridiculous, since the problem of Indianness has never been a problem, despite the fact that indigenous communities are torn between survival and definitive cultural annihilation. So much so that even the identity card has been denied, they are only the remnant symbol of a past.