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PubMed1996

[The creation and changing definitions of demographic knowledge: the case of mestizos in the indigenous communities of the Valle Bajo of Cochabamba, Bolivia].

"In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Spanish officials and members of the Catholic church created a series of race-based caste terms designed to identify and categorize the peoples of mixed ancestry. The Spanish American caste system relied on the assumed ability of a census-taker or priest to define the blood lines of an individual based on skin color and physical characteristics. However, the demographic knowledge created from the caste system was imprecise, and changed over time.... There were also long-term shifts in the meaning of terms and the definitions of status caused by socioeconomic changes. An example is the rapid rate of apparent mestizoization in the...indigenous communities of the Valle Bajo of Cochabamba, Bolivia. The rapid increase in the number of mestizos was related to changing definitions of the status and identity of indigenous peoples, and was not strictly caused by racial mixture." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND SPA)

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PubMed1995

[Decay of villages--population censuses at the end of the seventeenth century].

"The study raises an interesting methodological problem of population history research: the authenticity of bygone population censuses (in this case at the end of the 17th century [in Hungary]), their scientific applicability, and the interpretation of data...in these documents. The final conclusion of the study is that checking the data of population censuses from several aspects and accurate critics of the sources are extremely important...." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

Censuses↗
PubMed1995

Transitions in mortality and health: theory, comparison and historical evidence.

"The central aim of the present article is to review the theoretical and historical bases of the comparative perspective, in which the theory of epidemiological transition is normally used in order to improve our understanding of peripheral transitions in the evolution of the European mortality rate between 1860 and 1960.... We propose not so much a new theory speculating on the causes of the advances, which are irreversible after a certain point in the survival of western populations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as a new way of looking at existing interpretations. Specifically, we have attempted to justify the need for a perspective which gets away from the usual approach, based on a sequential arrangement of the stages within a scale of evolution, and on a causal impulse behind those stages, deriving from a global socio-economic process."

Demography↗
PubMed1993

[Utilization of semantic-documentary analytical techniques in the study and interpretation of diagnostic expressions of causes of death].

The authors report on a plan developed in Spain to compile a standard terminology of causes of death for use in historical demographic studies. "In the first phase a thesaurus will be created from the data available in the records. The second stage includes the creation of a terminological glossary. Finally...the change of information to standard nomenclatures [is proposed]." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

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PubMed1988

A genetic history of Italy.

Statistical techniques for displaying the geographical distribution of many genes in few synthetic images have been used to represent the various patterns of gene frequencies in Europe and in the world (Menozzi et al. 1978; Piazza et al. 1981 a). It has also been shown that such synthetic displays are particularly useful in detecting clines of genetic differentiation associated with movements of populations like those accompanying the Neolithic expansion of farmers from the Near East or, in more recent times, the putative diffusion of Indo-European-speaking populations (Ammerman & Cavalli-Sforza, 1984; Gimbutas, 1973). In this paper we use the same combination of statistical and graphical techniques to study the genetic structure of Italy, a European country whose unity of people and cultures was quite a recent event. The possibility of studying genetic differentiation in a small geographical area is tested and trends of genetic differences are tentatively interpreted in terms of historic and linguistic knowledge. The few demographic pieces of information taken from historical sources and compared with linguistic records support the hypothesis that the genetic structure of Italy still reflects the ethnic stratification of pre-Roman times.

Blood Group Antigens↗