La Casona is a settlement on the Guaymi Indigenous Reserve in the Coto Brus canton of southern Costa Rica. In October 2015, Teri Brewer accompanied cultural geographer and ethnobotanist Jeannine Koshear as co-investigator and filmmaker for an initial revisit of this community where Koshear worked 25 years ago. Brewer and Koshear worked to document Guaymi perspectives on the social and economic changes that have taken place in the intervening years, and to explore attitudes towards traditional knowledge as well as the development of “artisania” the development of a local handcraft industry catering to the growing local ecotourism initiatives and based in traditional Guaymi arts.
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