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In this theoretically innovative study of maldevelopment and power relations among the Nahuas of southern Veracruz, Chevalier and Buckles explore the impact of Mexico's cattle ranching and petrochemical industries on milpa agriculture and rainforest environment. They also examine how national politics and economics affect native patterns of patrimonial culture and social organization. In the concluding chapter, an ascetic worldview illustrated through corn god mythology points to meaningful ways of countering current trends of social and ecological impoverishment. This major work of scholarship tackles key issues in ecology and development, theories of the state, gender analysis and symbolic...
After many years of geographical and bibliographical journeys, William Panczner has completed a project that many of us would have loved to initiate, but did not undertake because of its magnitude and intrinsic complexity. Not since L. Salazar Salinas, who is credited with authoring Bole tin numeros 40 and 41 (lnstituto Geologico de Mexico, 1922, 1923), has an author been able to provide readers with a comprehensive volume containing information that is both authentic and reliable on Mexican mineralogy, mineral species, and localities. This volume is the most complete synthesis about Mexican minerals and their occurrences to date. It is richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, is we...
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Waking the Dictator is a study of federalism in late nineteenth century Veracruz State. It is also a politico-military analysis and an evaluation of social-revolutionary relations in the epoch of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution. This study is the first modern, comprehensive, and analytical history of the Porfiriato and Mexican Revolution in Veracruz.
El presente documento está dirigido al público en general que desee conocer los aspectos involucrados en la generación de indicadores del sector. Está conformado de nueve capítulos. El primero detalla los antecedentes que dieron origen a la Encuesta Nacional de Empresas Constructoras ENEC. El segundo contempla los objetivos para lo cual se diseñó la ENEC. En el tercero se mencionan las coberturas que maneja la encuesta. En el cuarto y quinto capítulo se detallan el Diseño Conceptual y el Diseño de la Muestra. En los tres capítulos siguientes se explica brevemente las etapas de levantamiento, tratamiento y procesamiento de la información. En el último capítulo se detalla la difusión de los resultados.