title: [Looking for a new past: strategies and problems of methodologies in historical demography].
abstract: "This article presents a state of the art [discussion] on the methodologies of historical demography.... This analysis is oriented to evaluate goals, possibilities and limitations in the methods of historical demography. These methods are introduced in terms of answers to two basic questions in this field: how demographers reconstruct population dynamics of the past and how they explain behaviour of these demographic systems." (SUMMARY IN ENG)
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006040:Goals; D006285:Health Planning; D008722:Methods; D009934:Organization and Administration; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012942:Social Sciences
keywords: Demographic Analysis; Demographic Factors; Demography; Evaluation; Goals; Historical Demography; Methodological Studies; Organization And Administration; Planning; Population; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Social Sciences; World
vernacular_title: Vias hacia un nuevo pasado: estrategias y problemas en las metodologias de la demografia historica.