Misc. Dissertations: Jalisco

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happens you need to ask: "Do I want to get past this obstacle or not?" 
Reading stuff that is not directly related to your genealogy is 
sometimes necessary. Immersion (bautizmo) is something that you should 
consider. . .immerse yourself in everything about your area. read read 
read. You never know when you will read something that might give you a 
perspective different than your current one. . .one that might get you 
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TI: Le role de la religion dans le developpement d'une identite 
regionale: La cas de la region de Los Altos de Jalisco, Mexique (French 
text)
AU: Lamothe-Genevieve
DN: MA
DD: 2003
SN: McGill-University-Canada (0781)
AD: Norget-Kristin
IB: 0612886581
PG: 96
LA: French
AB: This thesis looks at the origin, development and perpetuation of a 
religiously based regional identity in the region of Los Altos, in the 
state of Jalisco, Mexico. An examination of the interaction between 
Catholic religion, specific historical events, collective memory and 
regional discourse reveals how religion as a factor informing collective 
affiliation can be mobilized in ways that have social and political 
significance.
SU: Anthropology-Cultural (0326); Religion-General (0318)
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TI: Ethno-nationalist politics and cultural preservation: Education and 
bordered identities among the Wixaritari (Huichol) of Tateikita, 
Jalisco, Mexico
AU: Biglow-Brad-Morris
DN: PhD
DD: 2001
SN: University-of-Florida (0070)
AD: Moore-John-H
IB: 0493394907
PG: 315
LA: ENGLISH
AB: This dissertation examines the relationship between 
“indigenously controlled” education and cultural 
preservation among the Wixaritari, or Huichol, of the Sierra Madre 
Mountains of Jalisco, Mexico. Studies of indigenous identity and 
schooling are still lacking in anthropological fieldwork. While such 
studies have, in the past, focused on native education in the United 
States, there has been little research done on the impacts of 
indigenous-controlled education on the enculturation process of Indian 
youth, particularly in Latin America, and whether such educational 
environments really serve to fortify indigenous identity, and if so, how 
it is done. Recently, there has been resurgence in ethno-nationalism or 
self-determination among the indigenous peoples of Mexico and Latin 
America. This study examines the role of so-called indigenous-controlled 
community schooling in fight of these larger pan-Indian movement goals, 
showing that indigenous people are themselves divided over the process 
of cultural preservation due to their own changing sense of ethnic 
identity. Conflict results, creating a reliance on notions of an 
“imagined community” to unify social actors in a drama of 
power-knowledge relationships in which intellectuals, not 
traditionalists, control the educational process, channeling knowledge 
to meet the goals of the “imagined community” which may or 
may not be shared by all social actors.
SU: Anthropology-Cultural (0326); Sociology-Ethnic-and-Racial-Studies 
(0631); Language-Linguistics (0290)
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Record 25 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1997-2000
TI: DAYS OF THE DEAD: RITUAL CONSUMPTION AND ANCESTOR WORSHIP IN AN 
ANCIENT WEST MEXICAN SOCIETY (AGAVE TEQUILANA)
AU: BUTTERWICK-KRISTI-MARTENS
DN: PHD
DD: 1998
SN: UNIVERSITY-OF-COLORADO-AT-BOULDER (0051)
PG: 529
LA: ENGLISH
AB: This study focuses upon the Teuchitlán people of ancient West 
Mexico, who lived near Tequila Volcano, Jalisco from 200 B.C. to A.D. 
250. I argue the thesis that during the Late Preclassic Period of 
Mesoamerican prehistory, the central organizing principle of this 
society was based upon descent, and that kin groups practiced ancestor 
worship as a manifestation of this social organization. Deep shaft 
tombs, a hallmark of the Teuchitlán people, are the tangible 
archaeological remains of their social emphasis upon kin groups and 
principles of descent.
My study of the organization of an early West Mexican society relies 
upon evidence drawn from both art and archaeology. As part of their 
mortuary rituals, the Teuchitlán people placed ceramic 
architectural models containing figurines, into the tombs of their dead. 
My analysis of the architectural features and zoomorphic and 
anthropomorphic figural elements on 82 ceramic models identifies the 
themes of ancestor worship and ritual consumption.
At Huitzilapa, a Late Preclassic site situated on the flanks of Tequila 
Volcano, I further investigate evidence for kin groups and ritual 
consumption. My settlement pattern study reveals the imprint of kinship 
in the form of domestic architecture, patio group residences and family 
altars. I infer that the Huitzilapans had corporate kin groups that were 
ranked vis-a-vis each other. My ceramic analysis explores further the 
practice of ritual consumption. I conclude that the Huitzilapans, 
conducted private mortuary feasts and public annual feasts that 
commemorated the ancestors.
I propose that the localized production of the native <italic>Agave 
tequilana </italic> plant, restricted to the Tequila Volcano area, gave 
the Huitzilapans an unusual advantage over their neighbors. This plant 
may have provided a food surplus and the juices needed to prepare the 
intoxicating drinks of pulque and mescal. The corporate control over the 
valuable agave fields may have been the impetus for the formation of 
ranked descent groups during the Late Preclassic Period. The elaborate 
graves mark the claims made by these groups to the rights and properties 
of founding landowning families.
SU: Anthropology-Archaeology (0324)
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Record 27 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1997-2000
TI: "ESOS ALTOS DE JALISCO!": EMIGRATION AND THE IDEA OF ALTENO 
EXCEPTIONALISM, 1926-1952 (MEXICO)
AU: OROZCO-JOSE
DN: PHD
DD: 1998
SN: HARVARD-UNIVERSITY (0084)
AD: WOMACK-JOHN JR.
PG: 297
LA: ENGLISH
AB: Covering the years between 1926 and 1950, this study is both a 
social history of the Mexican region known as Los Altos de Jalisco and a 
cultural history of the manner in which the people of this region (know 
as Altenos) and their supposed Hispanic culture came to be the living 
embodiment of a non-Indian sense of Mexican national identity. Weaving 
the history of post-Revolutionary Mexican politics with varied aspects 
of Mexican life, this study explores the manner in which the creation of 
the modern Mexican state, both as an institutionalized political order 
and as form of consciousness and being, was crucially shaped by Mexico's 
socio-racial dilemma. I explain specifically how and why Altenos were 
seen and came to see themselves--much like the Cowboy in the United 
States, the Gaucho in Argentina, and the Voor-Trekker in South 
Africa--as the supreme example of Mexico's nation soul.
Using previously unexplored municipal archives, oral histories, and 
popular forms of entertainment, the study argues that the Cristero 
Rebellion of 1926-1929, the central state's attempt to break the regions 
political autonomy, and the emigration of a huge proportion of the 
region's working population, brought about radical changes in the 
economic, political, and cultural organization of the region that left 
it and its population subject to the peering eyes of the central state, 
Mexican Hispanistas, and the quickly industrializing popular culture 
industry. The efforts of these parties to create tequila-drinking, 
mariachi-singing cultural figure that was the racial and cultural 
antithesis of the Indian icon promoted by Indigenista intellectuals and 
politicians culminated in the 1940s with the crowning of the Alteno as 
Mexico's anti-Indian national icon. Altenos accepted and participated in 
creating many of the tenets of Alteno exceptionalism; but did so only 
after many of the region's population left their homes to emigrate to 
the United States or one of Mexico's larger cities. This study focuses 
on this process and shows how emigration created the conditions wherein 
Altenos became active agents in their own mythification.
SU: History-Latin-American (0336); History-Modern (0582); 
Anthropology-Cultural (0326)
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TI: CON SAL Y LIMON: A SURVEY OF THE TEQUILA INDUSTRY IN JALISCO (MEXICO)
AU: ROSCOE-RICHARD-POWELL
DN: AM
DD: 1958
SN: THE-UNIVERSITY-OF-CHICAGO (0330)
PG: 74
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Geography (0366)
SO: VOLUME S0330.
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Record 34 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1992-1996
TI: LAND TENURE, MARKETS, AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN 
JALISCO, 1915-1940 (MEXICO)
AU: CUEVA-RAMIREZ-LUIS-GEORGE
DN: PHD
DD: 1994
SN: UNIVERSITY-OF-CALIFORNIA-SAN-DIEGO (0033)
AD: YOUNG-ERIC-VAN
PG: 453
LA: ENGLISH
AB: This dissertation explores the relationship between systems of land 
tenure and commercial agricultural production in the area of central and 
southern Jalisco. The central theme is that the efforts of the Cardenas 
administration to dismantle the haciendas and radically restructure the 
agrarian economy were essential to removing remaining barriers to 
capitalist expansion in the countryside. The ejido system created under 
the Mexican agrarian reform between 1915 and 1934 did not allow the 
peasantry to participate successfully in agricultural production within 
the structures of the market economy. As a consequence of their 
exclusion from agrarian markets, the rural population suffered 
unemployment, low wages, marginalization, hunger and malnutrition, and 
many were ultimately forced to emigrate. After twenty years of agrarian 
reform, little had changed. But by the mid-1930s, with the onset of the 
global economic depression of 1929, these conditions were exacerbated. 
Finally, in 1934, efforts were undertaken by the government not only to 
dismantle latifundismo, but to introduce strict market controls over 
production, distribution, and prices in the agrarian sector. The control 
mechanisms enacted over market forces were designed to allow the 
peasantry greater opportunities to expand their income, and thus become 
more capable of sustaining their families. This study is based on 
extensive primary documentation taken from the Archivo Historico de 
Jalisco, and depicts the history of both hacendados and ejidatarios from 
their own perspective and in their own words.
SU: History-Latin-American (0336)
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Record 35 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1992-1996
TI: LIVES AND REFLECTIONS OF MEXICAN AND MEXICAN AMERICAN TRADITIONAL 
STORYTELLERS: A PARTICIPATORY STUDY
AU: MORALES-ROSARIO-SIMONA
DN: EDD
DD: 1993
SN: UNIVERSITY-OF-SAN-FRANCISCO (6019)
AD: ADA -ALMA-FLOR
PG: 319
LA: ENGLISH
AB: This dissertation inquired into the lives of six traditional Mexican 
storytellers in which they critically reflected on their lives and 
experiences with the cultural tradition of storytelling. It examined the 
role of the storyteller in the transmission of cultural values, 
knowledge and in the preservation of the tradition of storytelling.
This study was conducted utilizing the Participatory Research 
methodology based on the writings of Paulo Freire (1970, 1990), Kieffer 
(1981), and Maguire (1987). This methodology aims to empower the 
participants in the study through dialogue, reflection, critical 
analysis and action. The participants in the study were three women and 
three men who are from Mexican backgrounds. The research took place in 
California and Jalisco, Mexico. Two dialogue sessions with the 
participants were done bilingually in English and Spanish. The dialogues 
were audio taped and transcribed. The researcher gathered the 
storytellers' favorite stories and videotaped one storytelling session 
of each participant. A critical analysis of the study included the 
identification of the generative themes that surfaced in the dialogues 
and the transcribed texts, the implications of the study, conclusions 
and recommendations.
The results of the study provided background information on the lives of 
the storytellers and their contributions to others in their families and 
communities. The art of storytelling was intertwined with their lives 
and served as a method of communication. The study provided an 
acknowledgement and appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of the 
Mexican people and the role that the traditional storyteller plays in 
the transmission of culture, knowledge, values and maintenance of the 
storytelling tradition.
The appreciation of these storytellers' contributions to their families, 
communities, and culture have provided the role models for others to 
emulate. The preservation of the oral tradition of storytelling has been 
enhanced through the findings of this study and has contributed to 
furthering the knowledge and history of the Mexican people and their 
culture.
SU: Education-Bilingual-and-Multicultural (0282); Folklore (0358); 
Sociology-Ethnic-and-Racial-Studies (0631)
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Record 37 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1992-1996
TI: VAMOS PARA BUSCAR LA VIDA: A COMPARISON OF PATTERNS OF OUTMIGRATION 
FROM A RANCHO IN JALISCO AND INMIGRATION TO A MEXICALI SQUATTER 
SETTLEMENT (URBANIZATION, MEXICO, PEASANTS)
AU: WILSON-TAMAR-DIANA
DN: PHD
DD: 1992
SN: UNIVERSITY-OF-CALIFORNIA-LOS-ANGELES (0031)
AD: HAMMOND-PETER-B
PG: 736
LA: ENGLISH
AB: Patterns of outmigration from a rancho in Jalisco are compared to 
patterns of inmigration to a Mexicali squatter settlement, using both 
qualitative and quantitative data. Quantitative analysis is based on 
interviews with 98% of household heads on the rancho and 95% in the colonia.
There are four conclusions concerning patterns of outmigration from the 
rancho. First, the rancho is linked to the U.S. economy primarily, 
though not exclusively, though labor migration. Second, each of the 
rancho's three classes--commodity producing farmers, subsistence 
farmers, and landless or near landless peasants--has a qualitatively 
different labor linkage with the U.S. economy. Third, social networks 
are more important than control over economic resources in conditioning 
who migrates to the United States. Fourth, networks are grounded in a 
multiplicity of locations rather than being "bipolar" or "binodal."
There are five conclusions regarding patterns of migration among 
squatter settlement residents. First, most colonia residents knew 
someone in Mexicali before arriving. Second, many of the original 
settlers were kin and friends. Third, over time residents "pulled in" 
other relatives to the colonia. Fourth, most colonia residents who have 
worked in the United States have kin there. Fifth, the migration 
histories of those who have lived previously in multiple locations 
describe a "foraging"--rather than a stage-migration or duolocal 
chain-migration--pattern.
There are two findings concerning differences between rancho and colonia 
residents. First, although fathers of residents of both communities do 
not differ significantly as regards access to agricultural land, current 
residents of the rancho are more likely to own or control agricultural 
lands than colonia residents ever were. Second, the greater incidence of 
transnational migration among rancho residents is explained primarily by 
the former's greater network resources in the United States.
Possibilities for ameliorating the situation of the poorest residents of 
both communities, several based on their suggestions, are offered.
SU: Anthropology-Cultural (0326); Sociology-Demography (0938); 
History-Latin-American (0336); Economics-Labor (0510)
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Record 46 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1987-1991
TI: BECOMING A WEAVER: THE WOMAN'S PATH IN HUICHOL CULTURE (MEXICO)
AU: SCHAEFER-STACY-B
DN: PHD
DD: 1990
SN: UNIVERSITY-OF-CALIFORNIA-LOS-ANGELES (0031)
AD: WILBERT-JOHANNES
PG: 456
LA: ENGLISH
AB: The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a thorough 
ethnographic study of backstrap loom weaving among the Huichol Indians 
from the sierra community of San Andres Cohamiata, in the state of 
Jalisco, Mexico. Huichol weaving, dating back to pre-Columbian times, 
plays an important role in the elaborate cultural traditions and 
worldview that make up Huichol culture. This weaving tradition is an 
essential part of the woman's world and becoming a weaver is synonymous 
with becoming a woman in Huichol society.
The approach of this study is to examine weaving as a life-long 
enculturative process by which women experience, learn and pass onto 
succeeding generations telluric, technological, cultural, and 
cosmological knowledge vital to their role as women in Huichol culture. 
A detailed analysis of all the materials used in weaving, their various 
domestic and ritual uses, as well as their cosmological associations are 
discussed in order to show how weaving emerges, as Geertz (1973, 1983) 
proposes, as a kind of cultural system. From this perspective the 
backstrap loom is viewed as a "key symbol," defined by Ortner (1973), to 
be a point of focus in the cognitive distinctions, values, and 
orientations of a culture.
Within the backstrap loom and the activity of weaving, symbolic 
configurations are transmitted which permeate all levels of Huichol 
culture. The meaning imparted in the symbols which arise in the weaving 
tradition reveals underlying expressions of the importance of women and 
the feminine principles they represent in Huichol culture. In this 
manner, the backstrap loom, as a key symbol, takes on a heightened 
dimension as the extension of a woman's very essence, as well as her 
physical body. Through weaving, women metaphorically reinact the 
transformational powers they hold within their bodies to generate and 
regenerate life, thus insuring the survival and well being of Huichol 
culture.
SU: Anthropology-Cultural (0326); Women's-Studies (0453); Education-Art 
(0273)
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Record 49 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1987-1991
TI: BARKING IN THE WIND: CANINE AND RELATED WIND MOTIFS AS SYMBOLS OF 
DEATH AND A DYING JALISCO IN JUAN RULFO'S LITERARY WORLD (MEXICO)
AU: CLARK-BRADLEY-DREXEL
DN: PHD
DD: 1988
SN: THE-UNIVERSITY-OF-TEXAS-AT-AUSTIN (0227)
AD: SCHADE-GEORGE-D
PG: 489
LA: ENGLISH
AB: The complete literary works of the Mexican author Juan Rulfo, 
consisting of the novel Pedro Paramo, the short story collection El 
llano en llamas, the book El gallo de oro y otros textos para cine, and 
various individual short stories and novelistic fragments, contain 
numerous references to canines and a somewhat canine-related wind as 
descriptive and background elements. More than seen, touched, or 
otherwise "physically" incorporated into the works, however, the 
canine-related "presence" is generally either metaphorical or the 
entities involved are simply heard, adding a hauntingly audible but 
predominantly "invisible" detail to the atmosphere of the author's 
fiction. Rulfo's canine and wind motifs become rather closely 
interrelated at times in that the wind occasionally carries the barking 
or howling sounds of canines to their listeners and, in a few important 
passages, the wind and its howling are described as being somewhat 
caninelike themselves.
After considerable background discussion delving into some of the most 
pertinent bodies of symbolism involved and Rulfo's personal relationship 
to his subject matter, a comprehensive scrutinization of every 
reasonable concrete canine and canine-related wind reference in the 
author's work reveals a fairly consistent development and use of these 
motifs as symbols connected to the broad Rulfian theme of death. 
Determined to be linked to the general concept of death through its 
association with killers and the dead or dying, Rulfo's canine-related 
image is further associated with portions of his rural native region in 
the Mexican state of Jalisco, shedding additional light on the 
weltanschauung communicated through his literature. In his nonliterary 
comments, Rulfo repeatedly declared this area to be more a land of the 
dead than of the the living, a somber opinion that he reflected in his 
work. His canine and related wind motifs, in the final analysis, are 
elements of the literary epitaph he wrote for what he considered the 
depressed and dying region of his birth.
SU: Literature-Latin-American (0312)
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Record 50 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1987-1991
TI: IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROCESS IN LA FIESTA DE LOS TASTOANES (FESTIVAL, 
MEXICO, MESTIZO, RELIGION)
AU: NAJERA-RAMIREZ-OLGA
DN: PHD
DD: 1988
SN: THE-UNIVERSITY-OF-TEXAS-AT-AUSTIN (0227)
AD: LIMON-JOSE-E; BROW-JAMES
PG: 168
LA: ENGLISH
AB: This dissertation examines the social and political significance of 
a religious festival, La Fiesta de los Tastoanes, celebrated in honor of 
Santiago (St. James) in Jocotan, Jalisco. The three-day festival 
revolves around a dramatic re-enactment of the political and religious 
conflict that arose during the Spanish conquest which is manifested 
publicly in a series of mock battles between Santiago (the patron saint 
of the Spaniards) and the Tastoanes (who represent the indigenous Mexicans).
Previous studies on Mexican festival have been limited in several ways: 
First, anthropologists have concentrated their research almost 
exclusively on remote Indian communities in Mesoamerica; therefore, 
little is known about nature or significance of festival in mestizo 
and/or urban communities. Secondly, the study of festival in Mexico has 
emphasized how festivals function to maintain the established social 
order by either focusing on the economic aspect of fiestas, or focusing 
on ritual humor and/or symbolic reversals in the festival context. In 
short, festival studies have not provided a real sense of what the 
festival is about, or how and why people participate in festival, thus 
resulting in a very limited understanding of this complex phenomenon.
This study contributes to festival scholarship on Mexico in two 
important ways: I address the need for more research on non-Indian 
communities by focusing on a mestizo community located in the outskirts 
of Guadalajara--the second largest city in Mexico. And secondly, I push 
beyond the functionalist bias arguing that festivals are expressive 
forms which encourage the articulation of multiple viewpoints. I 
demonstrate that for Jocotan, La Fiesta de los Tastoanes is both a 
complex event as well as a dynamic social process through which 
community members address various fundamental and ideological concerns. 
The principal concerns include: their collective identity; the 
preservation of their folk religious beliefs and practices; and the 
development of and negotiation within the social-political power 
structure within Jocotan but with respect to contemporary capitalist 
Mexico. While this study focuses on contemporary Jocotan, a diachronic 
perspective is presented in order to detail the way La Fiesta de los 
Tastoanes has been used in the struggle for hegemony from the Spanish 
conquest to the present.
SU: Anthropology-Cultural (0326); Folklore (0358); 
History-Latin-American (0336)
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Record 51 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1981-1986
TI: AVAILABILITY OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL JOURNAL ARTICLES AND USER 
DISSATISFACTION STUDY IN FOUR MEXICAN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
AU: RIVERO-ROJAS-JOSE-GUILLERMO
DN: PHD
DD: 1986
SN: THE-UNIVERSITY-OF-TEXAS-AT-AUSTIN (0227)
PG: 213
LA: ENGLISH
AB: 2522 Journal citations collected from the 1975, 1977, 1983, and 1984 
Engineering Index covering sixty-three subjects, were searched for in 
the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, in the State of Puebla, in the 
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, in Mexico City, in the 
Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, in the State 
of Nuevo Leon, and in the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, in the 
State of Jalisco. Crosstabulations performed show distributions for 
satisfied requests, and for requests that were not satisfied because of 
acquisition failures, cancellation of subscriptions, or other reasons. 
Chi-square "goodness-of-fit" tests were performed to compare the results 
against expected distributions. Performance levels were obtained 
applying Kantor's branching methodology. A "national" performance level 
was obtained and compared against the performance levels shown by the 
individual libraries. Observations on the results show the urgency of 
developing a well structured interlibrary-loan system in Mexico, 
cooperative acquisition programs, and union lists.
SU: Library-Science (0399)
SO: VOLUME 48-05A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 1045.
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Record 52 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1981-1986
TI: THE ECONOMIC AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS OF A MESTIZO COMMUNITY IN 
WESTERN MEXICO: A FOCUS ON THE RELIGIOUS CEREMONIAL CYCLE WITHIN A 
CAPITALIST ECONOMY, TEUCHITLAN, JALISCO, MEXICO (SUGAR CANE, FIESTAS 
PATRONALES, EJIDOS, SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASS, HACIENDAS)
AU: CINQUINO-ARGANA-MICHAEL-ANTHONY
DN: PHD
DD: 1986
SN: STATE-UNIVERSITY-OF-NEW-YORK-AT-STONY-BROOK (0771)
PG: 372
LA: ENGLISH
AB: Teuchitlan, Jalisco, is a mestizo pueblo located in the highlands of 
western Mexico. After the 1910 Mexican revolution, the local economy of 
the region changed from a hacienda controlled system to a system 
dominated by commercial capitalism. Three haciendas owned the vast 
majority of land in the municipio, controlled labor through debt 
peonage, supplied agricultural produce and livestock for sale to 
regional (primarily in Guadalajara) and national markets, and were the 
centers of religious and political structures in the municipio. Today 
the pueblo has a mixed economic system within a complex society. The 
community can be divided into a lower and upper class structure. The 
lower class consists largely of small-scale campesino agriculturalists 
(ejidatarios) who utilize household labor to produce for the market and 
household consumption, local wage laborers (jornaleros) often engaged in 
agricultural production, and a small group of semi-skilled craftsmen. 
The upper class consists of a small number of private landholders 
specializing in sugarcane production who often own more than one 
successful business and property. The upper class also includes a small 
number of ejido households who have irrigated sugarcane fields and 
non-irrigated maize fields. These ejido households also own modern farm 
equipment, successful businesses, and property.
The main mechanism of social integration and solidarity between the 
upper and lower class is community-wide participation in the annual 
ceremonial cycle of the Catholic Church. It can be inferred that the 
change from the hacienda economic system to a commercial capitalist 
economy has not significantly altered the role of the religious system 
as an integrating force between classes in the pueblo.
Although altered, the role of religion as a major integrating force has 
not significantly changed since the fall of the hacienda system at the 
turn of the century. Socio-religious and socio-economic integration 
fostered by participation in the religious ceremonial cycle occurs at 
the household, fiesta group sponsor, barrio, pueblo, and regional 
levels; and cuts across social class boundaries, helping to minimize 
class segregation. It can be inferred that a limited change in the 
economic system need not effectively alter the role of the religious 
system as a source of solidarity between classes within the community.
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Record 57 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1981-1986
TI: POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN MEXICO: THE CASE OF ARANDAS, JALISCO
AU: DEL-CASTILLO-VERA-GUSTAVO
DN: PHD
DD: 1982
SN: THE-UNIVERSITY-OF-TEXAS-AT-AUSTIN (0227)
PG: 195
LA: ENGLISH
AB: The oligarchical form of domination present in Arandas, Jalisco and 
other regions of Los Altos de Jalisco is the result of a historical 
tradition made possible by the hegemonic control of natural and human 
resources by a solidarity group and by the existence of a weak 
nation-state unable to bring this area under its control from colonial 
times to the present. The weak Mexican state which emerged after the 
1910 revolution endured a major test during the Cristero rebellion of 
1926, a rebellion with its origins and main battleground in Los Altos de 
Jalisco. Unable to contain fully this popular uprising, the state was 
forced to enter into an agreement with a traditional oligarchy in 
Arandas; this oligarchy could exercise power with the condition that it 
guarantee peace and political stability in the area.
The political stability existent in Arandas for half a century came to 
an end due to the actions of a second oligarchy vying for the control of 
the formally differentiated institutions of local government, 
principally the municipal presidency. The conflict between these two 
oligarchies cannot be understood as one capricious attempt to govern the 
municipality of Arandas. It is a controversy concerning the continuation 
of Arandas's traditional society and the modern oligarchy's attempts to 
integrate this area with the overall Mexican development process.
The struggle between the two oligarchies occurs through the mobilization 
of all their available resources. These resources include extensive 
influence networks at the regional, state, and national levels. At the 
local level the oligarchies utilize both their political infrastructures 
and the traditional cultural expressions of the region for political 
ends. It is through these cultural expressions, both secular and 
religious, that mass clienteles are formed, always within contexts 
limiting both participation and demands.
It is this limited participation, the predominance of asymmetrical 
patron-client relations, the control of land, and the resulting 
sharecropping arrangements that have provided the threatened traditional 
oligarchy with the material and cultural bases for its domination.
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Record 60 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: COUNTERREVOLUTION IN MEXICO: THE CRISTERO MOVEMENT IN SOCIOLOGICAL 
AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
AU: JRADE-RAMON
DN: PHD
DD: 1980
SN: BROWN-UNIVERSITY (0024)
PG: 218
LA: ENGLISH
AB: Recently published works on the Cristero movement (1926-1929) have 
viewed the insurrection as the climactic outcome of the long-standing 
confrontation between Church and State in Mexico, and they have sought 
to explain it by assigning responsibility to either one or to both of 
the contending factions for the sequence of events that led to the 
violent struggle in the countryside. Within this context, the 
mobilization of rural contingents against Revolutionary authorities is 
assumed to express either the devotion of cultivators to Catholic 
religious beliefs or their dissatisfaction with the defective 
implementation of agrarian reform. In contrast to recent works on the 
Cristero movement, this study demonstrates that the divergent impact of 
modernizing processes upon rural communities, rather than the 
intricacies of Church-State relations, set the stage for the ensuing 
conflict and that the power struggle for the control of the rural 
community, rather than religiosity or landlessness, led local groups to 
take up arms against the Revolution.
This study's departure from the dominant scholarly tradition on the 
Cristero movement relies upon the application of a sociological approach 
to explain this crucial episode in the history of the Mexican 
Revolution. The adopted line of inquiry centered on two interrelated 
sets of hypotheses: the first pertained to the impact of modernizing 
processes upon rural community organization, while the second focused 
upon the consequences of abrupt shifts in the power of key community 
intermediaries. These initial hypotheses were evaluated on the basis of 
a comparative research design and new sources of data. The research 
design entailed paired and controlled comparisons between rural 
communities that supported and rural communities that opposed the rebel 
cause in two different regions of the State of Jalisco, the center of 
counterrevolutionary activities during the Cristero struggle. The data 
were drawn from a wide range of archives, tape-recorded interviews, and 
published primary and secondary sources.
Because of its comparative research design, this study concentrates as 
much on Revolutionary as on Cristero rural communities. It establishes 
differences between them in agrarian structure, parish organization, and 
municipal administration. These differences paved the way for the 
violent resistance to the Revolution, but they did not by themselves 
provoke its outbreak. The immediate cause of the rural uprisings was the 
contention for the control of the rural community. This power struggle 
occurred in socio-structural settings characterized by the predominance 
of a cultivator class which was relatively shielded from the 
fluctuations of a market economy and which retained de facto control 
over the land. It was brought about by centralizing policies that were 
initiated with deliberate attempts to displace conservative local elites 
from the leadership of municipal governments and that culminated 
abruptly in a concerted effort to extricate the parish clery from 
community affairs. The drastic offensive against these key 
intermediaries carried one critical step further the ongoing assault 
upon deeply entrenched community arrangements, and it led to locally 
organized uprisings against Revolutionary authorities.
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SO: VOLUME 41-12A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 5247.
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Record 64 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: THE STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS OF QUALITY OF LIFE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY 
OF MUNICIPALITIES IN JALISCO, MEXICO.
AU: GWYNN-DOUGLAS-BRUCE
DN: PHD
DD: 1977
SN: CORNELL-UNIVERSITY (0058)
PG: 220
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Sociology-Theory-and-Methods (0344)
SO: VOLUME 38-09A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 5753.
NO: AAI7800065
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	Record 65 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: THE POTTERS AND POTTERY OF TONALA, JALISCO, MEXICO: A STUDY IN 
AESTHETIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
AU: KATZ-ROBERTA-REIFF
DN: PHD
DD: 1977
SN: COLUMBIA-UNIVERSITY (0054)
PG: 513
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Anthropology-Cultural (0326)
SO: VOLUME 38-01A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 353.
NO: AAI7714816
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	Record 66 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: RURAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND MIGRATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF 
ACATIC AND ACATLAN DE JUAREZ IN JALISCO, MEXICO.
AU: EXTER-THOMAS-GRAY
DN: PHD
DD: 1976
SN: CORNELL-UNIVERSITY (0058)
PG: 197
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Sociology-Demography (0938)
SO: VOLUME 38-09A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 5736.
NO: AAI7801653
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	Record 67 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: SMALL FARMER CREDIT: A CASE STUDY OF FOUR VILLAGES NEAR GUADALAJARA, 
JALISCO, MEXICO.
AU: PATTISON-ROBERT-VAUGHN
DN: PHD
DD: 1973
SN: UNIVERSITY-OF-COLORADO-AT-BOULDER (0051)
PG: 226
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Economics-General (0501)
SO: VOLUME 34-07A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 3657.
NO: AAI7332578
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Record 71 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: CO-OPERATIVE LABOR GROUPS IN SUBSISTENCE ACTIVITIES AMONG THE 
HUICHOL INDIANS OF THE GOBERNANCIA OF SAN SEBASTIAN TEPONAHUASTLAN, 
MUNICIPIO OF MEZQUITIC, JALISCO, MEXICO
AU: WEIGAND-PHILIP-CLAYTON
DN: PHD
DD: 1970
SN: SOUTHERN-ILLINOIS-UNIVERSITY-AT-CARBONDALE (0209)
PG: 221
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Anthropology (0292)
SO: VOLUME 31-08B OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 4467.
NO: AAI7102415
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Record 75 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: THE PALETEROS OF MEXTICACAN, JALISCO: A STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN 
MEXICO
AU: ROLLWAGEN-JACK-ROBERT
DN: PHD
DD: 1968
SN: UNIVERSITY-OF-OREGON (0171)
PG: 272
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Anthropology (0292)
SO: VOLUME 29-07B OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 2272.
NO: AAI6900040
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	Record 76 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: THE ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF THE MEXICAN EJIDO: A CASE STUDY OF THREE 
EJIDOS IN JALISCO
AU: CLEMENT-NORRIS-CECIL
DN: PHD
DD: 1968
SN: UNIVERSITY-OF-COLORADO-AT-BOULDER (0051)
PG: 322
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Economics-Agricultural (0503)
SO: VOLUME 29-02A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 370.
NO: AAI6812395
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Record 77 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MUNICIPIO OF ETZATLAN, JALISCO
AU: LONG-STANLEY-VERNON
DN: PHD
DD: 1966
SN: UNIVERSITY-OF-CALIFORNIA-LOS-ANGELES (0031)
PG: 324
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Anthropology (0292)
SO: VOLUME 27-01B OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 26.
NO: AAI6606811
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	Record 78 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: GEOLOGY OF THE CUALE MINING DISTRICT, JALISCO, MEXICO.
AU: MACOMBER-BRUCE-EDKINS
DN: PHD
DD: 1962
SN: RUTGERS-THE-STATE-UNIVERSITY-OF-NEW-JERSEY --NEW-BRUNSWICK (0190)
PG: 470
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Geology (0372)
SO: VOLUME 23-06 OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 2094.
NO: AAI6205307
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	Record 79 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: EL ESPANOL DE JALISCO: CONTRIBUCION A LA GEOGRAFIA LINGUISTICA 
HISPANOAMERICANA
AU: CARDENAS-DANIEL-NEGRETE
DN: PHD
DD: 1953
SN: COLUMBIA-UNIVERSITY (0054)
PG: 387
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Language-and-Literature-Linguistics (0588)
SO: VOLUME 14-01 OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 137.
NO: AAI0006588
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	Record 80 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1861-1980
TI: A DIALECT AND FOLKLORISTIC STUDY OF TEXTS RECORDED IN LOS ALTOS OF 
JALISCO, MEXICO
AU: ROBE-STANLEY-L
DN: PHD
DD: 1950
SN: THE-UNIVERSITY-OF-NORTH-CAROLINA-AT-CHAPEL-HILL (0153)
PG: 1
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Language-and-Literature-General (0586)
SO: VOLUME W1950 OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 206.
NO: AAI0173544
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