SYMBOLISM

Author: HERNANDEZ LEON ELODIA.
Year: 2004.
University: SEVILLA [www.us.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Summary: The dissertation analyzes the process anticulación socio-cultural and a basin limitrofe from the introduction of the administrative boundary promicial. Book since 1933 the veleniames socieonimicas and symbolic of the 17 stocks that -- and itentifican withthe basin of the valley Pedroches córdoba. Advancing the reflesión on concepts identity as a factor, limit, onace and -- and explains what sense are the definitions identify the inhabitants of a territory which are located at the limit but, Andalusia, Extremadura and Cstilla Channel.

Author: SALVADOR DUCH JORDI JOSEP.
Year: 2004.
University: ROVIRA I VIRGILI [www.urv.cat].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE LETRAS.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD ROVIRA , VIRGILI.

Summary: The football, and specifically the FCBarcelona, has been a topic ignored by the social sciences in general. In order to break this isolation emerged the idea of this thesis, which from social and cultural anthropology, has been tried, a division of Barça and an approach to this social phenomenon unipresente in Catalan society. The various chapters of the thesis sevan reviewing and deciphering all aspects simbolícos and rituals that the environment azulgrana generates. The thesis shows that the soccer stadiums are a privileged space for reading the values of a society, its tensions, processing, and so on. Ultimately, the study FC Barcelona is also a study etrologíco of Catalan society.

Author: ROQUE ALONSO ANGELS.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: This research is part interpretative a rereading of some rural communities European immersed in the history and literature of the state, but little utilized as an element of anthropological thought. Our object of study focuses on the communities in the mountains of demand, Onion and Urbión for Burgos, Soria and La Rioja. These mountain people share territories and communal uses of long duration, as well as many of the symbolic elements that remain over the centuries, adapting to different historical and economic vicissitudes. Societies livestock where man has been devoted mainly to the transhumance of livestock merino toward Extremadura, during much of the year. Currently, these communities remain symbolic aspects that evoke social structures are long-term, some of them recently disappeared or processed. The field work carried out over several years and consulted documents in the archives local and national help us to make an interpretation on an anthropological kinship, individual and collective property, as well as the importance of the natural elements of culture . The years of this research have enabled observed in these communities a new socio-economic change in the late twentieth century, which also helps us to contextualize the adequacy technological and symbolic in this particular territory marked by cultural heritage and landscape.