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  • In Search of the Carnivalesque: An Investigation of Carnival in Santiago de Cuba

    Creator:
    Nichol, Melanie
    Abstract:
    Carnival celebrations in Santiago de Cuba transform large swaths of the city for an anticipated week of festivities, during which Afro-Cuban dancers and musicians are center stage, performing a complicated statement of prescribed cultural ideology, historic acts of agency, and nationalism. A particularly revealing celebration, carnival can be understood as...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Joan E. Gross Carnival

  • What are the environmental, economic, and social barriers to achieving agricultural sustainability in the Ten Rivers region of western Oregon?

    Creator:
    Stanton, Michael
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    This ethnographic study examined some of the ways that global markets and the infrastructure of agribusiness affect local smallholder farmers in the Ten Rivers region who are transitioning toward more sustainable and traditional agricultural methods. The purpose of this research was to discover what barriers smallholder farmers face in developing...
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    : ___________________________________________________________________ Joan E. Gross ABSTRACT This ethnographic study examined some of the ways that global

  • Anthropological case studies of religious syncretism in Bolivia

    Creator:
    Lord, Jonathan
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    Religious histories have always appropriated pre-existing symbol systems of religion into newer forms, often with the goal in mind to acculturate a population into a new cultural setting to reach a desired status quo of society. The problem with acculturation theory is that it is filled with teleological and quantitative...
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    approved: Joan Gross Religious histories have always appropriated pre-existing symbol systems of