Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2006 Sep 21

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 516-576).

xi, 114 p. : ill., maps (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Since 1975, the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia has been renegotiating its political and cultural place within Spain. The designation and promotion of places within Catalonia as World Heritage Sites-a matter over which regional authorities have competency-provides insights into the national and territorial ideas that have emerged in recent decades. This study of the selection and portrayal of World Heritage sites by Turisme de Cata1unya shows that the sites reflect a view of the region as 1) home to a distinct cultural group, 2) a place with an ancient past, and 3) a place with a history of territorial autonomy. These characteristics suggest that even though many Catalan regionalists seek a novel territorial status that is neither independent of nor subservient to the Spanish state, the dominant territorial norms of the modem state system continue to be at the heart of the Catalan nation-building project. / Committee in Charge: Dr. Alexander B. Murphy, Chair; Dr. Xiaobo Su

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The Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona is a peer-reviewed monograph series sponsored by the School of Anthropology. Established in 1959, the series publishes archaeological and ethnographic papers that use contemporary method and theory to investigate problems of anthropological importance in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and related areas.

This thesis is concerned with soil erosion from hillslopes in semi-arid Spain. It approaches the problem f rom three related angles which are reflected in its structure: Part 1: The literature is evaluated to determine the current conceptual understanding of the processes of soil erosion, and the organisation of those concepts and evidence from field and laboratory studies into predictive models of the major processes of erosion - rainfall dynamics, rainsplash, infiltration and runoff generation, runoff routing and wash erosion mechanics. Part 2: A field study of the major factors of erosion and their results is conducted over two field seasons for four experimental hilislope sites in southern Spain, and provides detailed information on the spatial and temporal patterns of erosion and their controls. Four main contextual variables are analysed - topography, vegetation cover, surface sediments (soil and coarse fraction) and micro-topographic roughness. The results from four process experiments are presented - infiltration from ponded and simulated rainfall experiments; runoff generation and soil loss from fifty microplot rainfall simulations; natural storm runoff and erosion losses from sub-site plots situated at the midpoint and base of each site; and seasonal and annual patterns of ground surface change derived from soil pin data. Part 3: Concern is with the development of selected erosion process simulation models. These include - the stochastic generation of a temporally nested rainfall series (yield, intensity, duration of wet and dry periods) for the annual/seasonal distribution of daily rainfall, and, subject to threshold criteria, the hourly pattern of storms within a day; an infiltration-runoff generation model based on a modified Green and Ampt (1911) infiltration equation, which predicts time to runoff, volume of pre-saturation soil storage, and runoff volumes. The latter are routed across plots according to an algorithm which determines potential flow lines in three dimensional space. A finite difference kinematic flow model using the Manning flow equation is developed and calibrated from microplot data; finally an erosion model developed from the prototype of Meyer and Wischmeier (1969) predicts spatial and temporal variability of erosion from hillslopes. Major changes to the original model include three-dimensional space and contour curvature, dynamic modelling of flow generation and routing, and physically based detachment and transport mechanics of overland flow. The thesis is divided into two volumes - Volume I comprises the text arranged into three parts. Volume II, for ease of reference, presents supporting and background material, which may be read in parallel with Volume I, and includes Appendices of raw data, results of data analysis, computer programs and simulation results; a list of symbols by chapter; a set of photographic plates, and a full bibliography.

Through the analysis of artistic and written artifacts, this dissertation attempts to reflect upon the cultural and political conditions that conjoin to constitute a highly unstable "Galizan identity". The dissertation will begin by reading how a graphic work by the single most central figure in modern Galizan nationalism managed to convey such unstable identity. It will then go on to assess how culture in general, and literary production in particular might be used to mobilize the social elements that would liberate a potential Galizan identity/nation, according to the terms of a contemporary Galizan manifesto-cum-declaration and under the conditions which have historically produced the cultural, social and political map of the Iberian Peninsula. The special situation of Galiza comes across, thus, as perhaps the most complex identitarian conflict of those locked up by the Spanish Kingdom. Amongst all the potential indicators of a "Galizan identity", language retains a hegemonic position (of which the artifacts under study here are perfect paradigms) at the same time that it has become the privileged territory for the confrontation of different national projects. The combination of this cultural constituent factor with other historic elements allows for the categorization of Galiza as an enclave in an unequal dialectical relationship. This characterization depends, however, upon the privileged status given to the Nation-State in Modernity as the site of political sovereignty. Assuming as much, the artifacts analysed in this dissertation can only present Galiza as being either a nation's "amputated/occupied segment" or a "forbidden" nation (without "its own Nation-State"). Nevertheless, in the Global Era, the "suspended" condition of Galizan identity may become one of the aporetic paradigms of subjectivity at the beginning of the new century: Galizans can and cannot be (an)other thing. Their incompleteness is, thus, not only the very condition of their foreignness to the two Nation-States of the Iberian Peninsula but, above all, to the modern political construct that the Nation-State is.

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