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This dissertation is a diachronic settlement and landscape study undertaken from an interpretive archaeology perspective. The outcome of this study has been an interpretation of the settlement and landscape configurations as well as of the sociopolitical organization during the entire prehispanic occupation (ca. 1100 B.C.- A.D. 1532) of the Upper Piura River Valley in the Far North Coast of Perú. Also, the sociopolitical interaction between the local polities of the Upper Piura River Valley and the southern foreign Northern North Coast polities has been assessed. The Far North Coast is not an environmentally "marginal" area as compared to the Northern North Coast. Yet, in terms of its prehispanic cultural development, it often has been characterized as "marginal" or "peripheral". Such characterization is due in part to an overemphasis on the study of Mochica style cultural materials found in the Far North Coast. In particular, the emphasis on analyses of "high quality" Mochica ceramics has led to interpretations that view local Upper Piura River Valley sociopolitical developments from the perspective of the "dominant" Northern North Coast societies in an unbalanced situation disregarding the perspective of the supposedly "weaker, less developed" local societies. In this sense, interpretations drawn from iconographic and stylistic analyses of objects on the one hand, and from landscape analyses on the other, seem like two different versions of the same story. Since the latter is so uncommon and unexplored in Andean archaeology, I chose to apply it in this dissertation. For that purpose I followed two different but complementary paths of interpretation. The first path is an interpretation of the landscape from a dwelling perspective. The goal was to create an analogy of the experience of past individuals through an embodiment process via the movement of my body and mind through the landscape features. A second path of interpretation was merged with the first one. This second path comprised a classic settlement pattern analysis oriented to clarify the nature of the sociopolitical interaction between local polities of the Upper Piura River Valley and the intrusive polities of the Northern North Coast. The second path of interpretation also entailed overlapping the settlement patterns observed onto the spatial structures and topograms defined and interpreted by the dwelling perspective. As a result, I found that the study area is characterized by a 2600-year long process of dwelling in the landscape. Through this process and along the years, yet following a long, local process, revolving around the topograms, the landscapes conceptualizations and configurations changed. Two moments of the settlements and landscapes configurations were defined: the "old system" and the "new system". For most of its history (through all the "old system" and the first epoch of the "new system"), and acknowledging the mutual cultural influence with other areas (e.g., the Northern North Coast), the local landscape and settlement configurations were not disrupted and engaged in an egalitarian or coevolving sociopolitical interaction. Yet during the second epoch of the "new system", this situation changed drastically when a hierarchical and coercive interaction structure developed during the Chimú and Inca periods.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / This study is an exploratory study to examine settlement house directors' perceptions of discrimination against Negroes in their communities and the actions their agencies were taking to decrease discrimination. The study thus fell into two broad areas. The first part of the study explored the directors' perceptions of the discrimination against Negroes in their communities in housing, education, employment and other areas . This part of the study was based on the assumption that discrimination did exist in some form and did not try to examine or describe that discrimination objectively. The study was rather focused upon the directors' own perceptions of discrimination. The study did not attempt to explore the directors' own prejudices or discriminatory practices, for this would have required an evaluative study of attitudes and a different research design and different techniques from those used in the study. [TRUNCATED]

This thesis deals with comparison of changes in the development of cadastral territory Dobrá Voda a Stožec. Map dated from 1826 and a current orthophotomap are used for the purposes of change comparison. The first part of the thesis is focused on definitiv of basic terms and description of habitation development. The second part describes the development in cadastral from the point of view of the development of soil use and evaluation of differences. The differences are shown by usin different tools - graphs and Arcgis application software information. The individual outputs are drawn according to cadastral condition and accompanied by evaluation of the results.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2001Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:29:41Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 cargnin_rcn_me_prud.pdf: 1566185 bytes, checksum: d5322f7e9a8d9255cf660521eb7e5db5 (MD5) / Vila Alta, bairro localizado na periferia no município de Paranavaí, num prolongamento da Vila Operária que é considerado um bairro operário. Surgiu de forma espontânea e irregular. Este bairro serviu para assentamento de pessoas de baixa renda e de pouca qualificação profissional, proveniente em sua maioria do movimento migratório campo-cidade, através de invasões. A ocupação destas terras constituiu, portanto, forma de ampliação forçada do perímetro urbano de Paranavaí, com conseqüente exigência da infra estrutura necessária à melhoria das condições de vida de seus moradores. A primeira característica desta população é a sua exclusão histórica dos circuitos de educação formal e formação profissional, condições que reduz a perspectiva de sua integração no processo produtivo em nossa sociedade. / Vila Alta is a district in the perimeter of Paranavaí City and it also is an extension of Vila Operária (that is considered an workmen quarter) in the same city. So, Vila Alta came to sight in an irregular and spontaneous way. This Vila Alta district has been attending on for the settlement of very low income persons and so for those ones who have very few professional qualification that are proceeding from — in their majority — the migratory movement Country-City, through the invasions. The incursion of these lands establishes, therefore, a manner of compulsory enlargement to the urban perimeter of Paranavaí City, with the consequent exigency of infrastructure that is needed to better conditions of living to the inhabitants. The principal characteristic of these inhabitants is their historic exclusion of the formal education and professional ambit, that is considered a circumstance that also reduces the perspective of their integration to the productive process in our society.

Orientador: Elpídio Serra / Resumo: Vila Alta, bairro localizado na periferia no município de Paranavaí, num prolongamento da Vila Operária que é considerado um bairro operário. Surgiu de forma espontânea e irregular. Este bairro serviu para assentamento de pessoas de baixa renda e de pouca qualificação profissional, proveniente em sua maioria do movimento migratório campo-cidade, através de invasões. A ocupação destas terras constituiu, portanto, forma de ampliação forçada do perímetro urbano de Paranavaí, com conseqüente exigência da infra estrutura necessária à melhoria das condições de vida de seus moradores. A primeira característica desta população é a sua exclusão histórica dos circuitos de educação formal e formação profissional, condições que reduz a perspectiva de sua integração no processo produtivo em nossa sociedade. / Abstract: Vila Alta is a district in the perimeter of Paranavaí City and it also is an extension of Vila Operária (that is considered an workmen quarter) in the same city. So, Vila Alta came to sight in an irregular and spontaneous way. This Vila Alta district has been attending on for the settlement of very low income persons and so for those ones who have very few professional qualification that are proceeding from - in their majority - the migratory movement Country-City, through the invasions. The incursion of these lands establishes, therefore, a manner of compulsory enlargement to the urban perimeter of Paranavaí City, with the consequent exigency of infrastructure that is needed to better conditions of living to the inhabitants. The principal characteristic of these inhabitants is their historic exclusion of the formal education and professional ambit, that is considered a circumstance that also reduces the perspective of their integration to the productive process in our society. / Mestre