Sökning: "Central Mexico"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden Central Mexico.

1. 1. Orienting West Mexico: The Mesoamerican World System 200-1200 CE

   Författare :Peter F. Jimenez Betts; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mesoamerica; Archaeology; World-Systems theory; World-Systems analysis; Nested Networks; West Mexico; Central Mexico; Early Classic; Epiclassic; Early Postclassic;

   Sammanfattning : As world-systems theory came to the fore in archaeology during the 1980s and 1990s, it became evident that the analysis of pre-capitalist core/periphery relations required modifications of this theory for its further use in the discipline. As a result, the comparative approach for world-systems analysis (Chase-Dunn and Hall 1997) discerned four interaction networks that defined pre-capitalist world-systems. LÄS MER

3. 2. The roads in-between : causeways and polyagentive networks at Ichmul and Yo'okop, Cochuah Region, Mexico

   Författare :Johan Normark; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agency; architecture; becoming; Bergson; causeway; Cochuah; culture critique; Deleuze; difference; duration; event horizon; evolution; humanocentrism; Ichmul; ideology; in-between; index; materialtiy; Maya; Mexico; multiplicity; neo-materialism; network; polyagency; polyagent; posthumanism; practice; rhizome; road; sakbe; settlement archaeology; technoscience; temporality; Terminal Classic; virutality; Yo okop;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation has two aims: (1) To characterize and abandon the humanocentric archaeology that relies upon quasi-objects and to develop the polyagentive archaeology that relies upon actualizations of the virtual. (2) To exemplify the latter approach by studying how causeways (sakbeob) in the Maya area relate to temporality and materialtiy at, and around, the two neighbouring sites of Ichmul and Yo'okop in the Cochuah region of southeast Yucatan and west-central Quintana Roo in Mexico. LÄS MER

4. 3. Farewell to peasantry? : (Post)modernising rural Mexico - The case of the ejido peasants in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

   Författare :Sandra Fernández C; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mexico; qualitative methods; campesinos; ejido system; geographies of exclusion and resistance; Rural development; depeasantisation process; Isthmus of Tehuantepec; Social geography; Socialgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis deals with a classical issue, that of the fate of the peasantry, in particular the process of the transformation of the peasantry. The aim is to explore whether there is a place for the smallholding peasantry in the future, or if the process of dissolution is inevitable. LÄS MER

5. 4. Negotiating Involuntary Resettlement : A study of local bargaining during the construction of the Zimapán dam

   Författare :Inga-Lill Aronsson; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Lucia Ann McSpadden; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Mexico; resettlement; displacement; peasants; negotiations; time; space; development; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation seeks to present and analyze the negotiation process between the Mexican Power Board (CFE) and the peasants of Ejido Vista Hermosa, who were displaced by the building of the Zimapán dam in central Mexico. I use these negotiations as a focal point to identify the strategies, the reasoning, the priorities, and the conflicts of interest of the two main actors in the resettlement project. LÄS MER

7. 5. Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis A and hepatitis B virus in central America

   Författare :Patricia Arauz-Ruiz; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Sammanfattning : The genetic variability was determined for hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) strains from cases of acute and chronic hepatitis in Central America (CA). The genetic relatedness was established for the' strains to strains from other parts of the world. LÄS MER