Zugl.: Kassel, Univ., Diss., 2006 / Download lizenzpflichtig

Zugl.: Kassel, Univ., Diss., 2006

University, Diss., 2006--Kassel. / Download lizenzpflichtig.

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The formulation of land-use programs fostering the social development of a community is the basic aim of the present work. The San Tiburcio region, located in northern Mexico, provides the background for the design of specific programs as well as a vehicle to present and illustrate the proposed procedure. The advocated program design procedure is made up of four distinct stages; value structuring, project screening, program delineation, and program selection. At each stage a specific technique is proposed in order to achieve the particular output sought. The value structuring phase strives to achieve a characterization of the objective structure, as advocated by a group, and the identification of objective measures useful in the decision making stage. Q-analysis is used to study the structure of the objectives as implied by a given relation among these objectives. The objective structure for the San Tiburcio region is assessed and studied in the context of the proposed value structuring activities. Based upon previous research, a set of land-use projects is formulated by a multidisciplinary team and submitted as potential candidates to integrate a program for the San Tiburcio region. Related to this set of land-use projects is another set of infrastructural and industrial projects proposed by various governmental agencies. A mixed-integer linear multiobjective programming (MILMOP) model is used to handle the determination of specific program profiles. Due to computational and data limitations, a prior screening of alternatives is undertaken, using a knapsack-type model. By considering several types of objectives and levels of resources, a classification of projects is achieved. Two plausible screening criteria are developed to deal with the San Tiburcio problem. The set of screened projects is used as the starting basis of the program delineation stage. A series of program profiles is generated by obtaining various half-compromise solutions of the MILMOP model. Each half-compromise solution is obtained when a particular set of weights is used for the various objective functions. The selection of a given program is undertaken within the context of a multiattribute decision problem. To this end, a technique based on polyhedral dynamics is developed and used to produce a ranking of programs. A series of sensitivity runs are conducted to conclude that only two programs of the five considered are ranked consistently higher than the rest.

Mon travail porte sur les sociétés minières du centre-nord de la Nouvelle-Espagne au XVIIIè siècle, notamment à Zacatecas, Fresnillo et Sombrerete. Dans ce cadre précis, je m'intéresse aux « plèbes urbaines », groupe hétérogène dans lequel se retrouvent les castas mais aussi la foule des Indiens ladinos et des Espagnols déclassés qui adoptent des comportements similaires ou qui s'accrochent désespérément à leur « hispanité ». Cette définition mène en premier lieu à l'analyse de la stratification sociale d'un point de vue socio-économique. Toutefois, le comportement de crispation des « petits-blancs » conduit à ne pas évacuer totalement la prégnance d'une stratification socio-raciale dans les mentalités et les représentations. Une telle approche induit non seulement un questionnement sur la constitution de la société coloniale mais introduit aussi la notion du discours sur autrui, autant de problèmes qu'il faut résoudre en confrontant la réalité coloniale, le vécu des « plèbes urbaines » et le discours dont elles font l'objet. C'est donc tout un jeu de va-et-vient entre ces pôles qui doit révéler une société infiniment complexe et mouvante dans laquelle stratifications concrète et mentale se combinent et produisent une véritable mosaïque sociale. / My current doctoral research is about the mining societies in Northern and Central New Spain during the 18th century, and especially the region of Zacatecas, Fresnillo and Sombrerete. Within this particular context, I centred my study on the lower classes, a rather heterogeneous social group composed of castas, ladinos and poor Spaniards. This definition leads the reflection towards the analysis of the social stratification from a socio-economical perspective. However, the case of the poor Spaniards, their behaviour and the way they tend to reject the mestizos and other castas (as potential spouses for instance), stressing on their ties to the more powerful group of the Creoles in the process, indicates that the socio-racial component of the social stratification should not be ignored, at least as far as individual and collective mentalities are concerned. This point of view orientates a questioning about the formation of the colonial society and introduces the notion of the perception of one another as well. The confrontation between the colonial reality and the lower classes‟ perception can be a way of answering this interrogation. The result of this work is the depiction of an extremely complex and fluid society in which several levels of stratification (real / perceived) add up to produce a social mosaic. / El tema de mi investigación doctoral actual trata de las sociedades mineras en el Centro Norte de la Nueva España a lo largo del siglo XVIII, más precisamente en la región de Zacatecas, Fresnillo y Sombrerete. En este contexto, el estudio sigue las “plebes urbanas”, un grupo social muy heterogéneo que integra a las castas pero también a los indios ladinos y a la muchedumbre de los criollos pobres, cuyos comportamientos son muy parecidos a los de las castas, o, al contrario, cuya esperanza es demostrar su legítima pertenencia al grupo superior de los Españoles. Este tipo de definición conduce naturalmente a analizar la cuestión de la estratificación social desde una perspectiva esencialmente socio-económica. Sin embargo, el fenómeno de crispación social que se puede observar entre los criollos pobres que rechazan a las castas (sobre todo al momento de eligir una pareja) conduce también a considerar la importancia de las consideraciones de natura socio-racial en las mentalidades y los discursos del siglo XVIII novohispano. Por estas razones, la problemática de mi trabajo es dual: no sólo se interesa a la formación y la evolución de la sociedad colonial pero no olvida los discursos y las percepciones. Por eso elegí un proceso de confrontación entre la realidad colonial reconstituida gracias a la documentación y los discursos elaborados por y sobre las plebes urbanas. Resulta de este esfuerzo la reconstitución de una sociedad sumamente compleja y fluida en la cual diferentes niveles (concreto / mental) de estratificación se añaden para producir una mosaica social.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University, 1977. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-181).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University, 1977. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-181).

This doctoral thesis presents the results of the pioneering archaeological investigation conducted in the Northern Mexican Highlands with the aim to evaluate the existing indicators of the earliest human occupations at the end of the Pleistocene and discover new evidence of ancient cultural manifestations through a systematic exploration of an endorheic basic in the Zacatecas desert, a region never studied before. An exhaustive survey and analysis of the available literature on Mexican prehistory establishes the weak points of the local paradigms, differentiating between academic myths and objective realities. A complete historiography of the topic of the earliest humans in Mexico has been achieved, for the first time. The study of several collections of flaked stone artefacts, in different cities in Mexico, show new indicators of the presence of bearers of the Late Paleoamerican cultures, in regions where their presence had been weakly confirmed. The most important part of the research consisted in fieldwork realised during two long seasons; the first one dedicated to the surface explorations and the second one to excavations. Thirty-five new archaeological sites were discovered in the first phase, most of them open campsites reminiscent of hunter-gatherer societies, with a richness of stone artefacts on their surface. They indicate a long cultural sequence, going from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene and the historic periods. Four sites were further studied by fourteen test excavation units: Dunas de Milpa Grande, San José de las Grutas, the Chiquihuite Cave and Ojo de Agua. Two new archaeological cultures were identified, one at Dunas (an interesting assemblage of limestone and basalt flaked stone tools) and another one at San José (a limestone concave-based points complex). First indicators of ʻolder than Clovisʼ human presence have also been obtained. The palaeoenvironmental data provide a preliminary reconstruction of the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene landscape of the basin, based on geology, extinct fauna, phytolith and mollusc analyses. Radiocarbon and OSL results support a first cultural and paleoclimatic model for the study area. This investigation also discovered the first case of a “black mat” in Mexico: a black layer of sediment deposited under specific environmental conditions during the Younger Dryas cooling event.

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