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Perspectives on Pits of the Western Stemmed Tradition : An Analysis on the Contents of Feature 59 at the Cooper’s Ferry Site

Creator:: Carroll, Amanda J.
Abstract:: Excavation of a pit feature designated as Feature 59 (F59) from the Cooper’s Ferry site (10IH73) in western Idaho offers a unique opportunity to explore more about the Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) and how people used pits in the Far West. In this thesis, an analysis is conducted on the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: working with me to complete it. I want to thank my committee members Dr. Leah Minc and Dr. Shawn Rowe

Integrating Systemic and Applied Anthropology Approaches to Identify Barriers and Enablers to Accessing Healthcare in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Creator:: Copple, Ethan L.
Abstract:: Healthcare access exhibits differing levels of complexity, often requiring multi-disciplinary approaches to study its barriers and enablers. Though Argentina has achieved nominal universal healthcare coverage through its public healthcare system, full effective coverage has not been achieved. The public system also has a parallel private care system, adding further complexity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Thank you to Dr. Hector Vergara, Dr. Melissa Cheyney, and Dr. Shawn Rowe for serving as members of my

Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan

Creator:: Ioannides, Michael J.
Abstract:: Although dam construction has been an integral tool in development initiatives for nearly a century, dams can have significant negative impacts on local residents, particularly those who are permanently displaced from their homes and must be resettled elsewhere. Dams have unique impacts on indigenous peoples. As a result, many dam...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael J. Ioannides for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology

“Gold Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care for Soil in Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Christophel Michaels, Rosa J.
Abstract:: This thesis investigates how beginning, women farmers, within in a women farmers’ network in the Willamette Valley, Oregon are accessing land and farming information. Using ethnographic, community-based research methods, I ask how land access mediates their ability to care for their land and soil. Are these farmers interested in fostering...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: create even 1 inch of fertile top-soil. Michael Carolan argues that the tension between understanding

Subsistence Harvest Diversity in Alaskan Food Sharing Networks

Creator:: Scaggs, Shane A.
Abstract:: Two striking characteristics of human beings are the diversity of resources that we use to sustain our lives and the extent to which we engage in coordinated, collective efforts to obtain and consume these resources. Together, these two characteristics are the foundation of human subsistence patterns. In many remote Alaskan...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: a meager sustenance or baseline levels of survival (Magdanz et al. 2016; Schumann and Macinko 2007

Risk Perceptions in the Oregon Hazelnut Growing Industry: An Exploratory Study of a Recovering Industry

Creator:: Harrison, Darin L.
Abstract:: This paper is an exploratory study of the risk perceptions in the Oregon Hazelnut growing community. The study takes place at a time when the industry as a whole has begun to stabilize from the effects of Eastern Filbert Blight, a fungal pathogen that infects hazelnut trees which had devastated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Kemenik Natajsaj Qach’ob’oj Chirij le Xib’inel / Weaving to Remember Our Ghost Stories: A Queer and Trans Memoria Histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War

Creator:: López, Andrés C.
Abstract:: This dissertation is a memoria histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War that centers queer and trans Maya people in its imaginings. Using Maya backstrap weaving practices, “constellating” as defined by the Cultural Rhetorics Theory Lab, and ghost stories as a Maya-centered queer/trans rhetorical methodology, I argue for a shift from...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: emphasizes multiple layers of relationships in the process of recollection. Shawn Wilson defines paradigms

Training Community Health Workers in Oregon during a Public Health Crisis: Reflections on the Importance of Mental Health in Care-based Work

Creator:: Bompensa, Amanda A.
Abstract:: This ethnographic study addresses the concerns of Oregon based Community Health Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through their shared perspectives on the importance of mental health and self-care, CHWs highlight the critical need to learn practical skills in their training in order to better support their communities. Recommendations made by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Farquhar, Michael & Wiggins, 2005). CHWs build health knowledge and self-sufficiency (at the individual

¿Que es rico? In Support of the ¡Que Rico Es! 250mil Familias Campaña : Practice, Ideology, Rica, Sana, y De Nuestra Tierra

Creator:: Fisher, Nicholas A.
Abstract:: What does comida rica mean? In this thesis, I explore the meanings of comida rica, sana, and de nuestra tierra through the discourses, practices, and kitchen geographies in six urban, highland households in the Ecuadorean Andes. This research, as part of a larger investigation carried out by a team of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Cosmic Heritages: Multiraciality and Epistemologies of Black and Native Storytelling

Creator:: Miller, Gabrielle
Abstract:: This thesis thinks through the ways in which Black and Native storying offer epistemological interventions on neoliberal formations of multiracial identity. I argue that Black and Native storytelling methods and methodologies facilitate rethinking and re/unlearning relationships to the racial and ethnic categories of mixed-race, biracial, and multiracial, as well as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A Thematic Analysis of Three Women Elect : Their Life Stories Via Autobiography

Creator:: Monnier, Brittany O'Dessa
Abstract:: Women being elected into public office, a recent occurrence, raises questions and concerns about what it means to have women in office. Concerns include: policy differences women in office might produce, changing the image of what it means to be a leader, and ultimately the fear of a shifting society....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Ecological baselines for Oregon's coast: a report for agencies that manage Oregon's coastal habitats for ecological and economic sustainability, and for all who are interested in the welfare of wildlife that inhabit our coast and its estuaries

Creator:: Hall, Roberta L., Ebert, Thomas A., Gilden, Jennifer S., Hatch, David R., Mrakovcich, Karina Lorenz, and Smith, Courtland L.
Abstract:: Against the backdrop of growing concern about dead zones, rare and endangered sea mammals, depletion of Oregon’s once‐abundant fish stocks, acidification threatening coastal molluscs, and proposals for marine reserves along Oregon’s coastline, a multidisciplinary group of scientists was called together in 2008 to discuss what is known about Oregon’s coastal...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Shifting Roots: Reimagining the Genealogical Roots of Disability Studies and Mad Studies through Women of Color Feminisms

Creator:: Johnk, Lzz
Abstract:: This dissertation argues for rooting genealogies and origin stories of Disability Studies and Mad Studies in women of color feminist scholarship-activism. Turning to women of color feminist work as “alternative origin stories” shifts Disability Studies and Mad Studies away from limiting and often racist eurowestern models of Madness/disability. Women of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Curandera feminism : tracing the possibilities of healing institutional harm

Creator:: Buzo Tipton, Carina M.
Abstract:: This dissertation develops a framework for Curandera feminism, informed by familial healing practices, women of color feminisms, and institutional critique. My research centers my family’s generational Curandera practices. As I honor the call to be critical of the master’s tools, I seek possibilities for institutional change through Curandera feminism. Institutions...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

Creator:: Gann, Tamara S.
Abstract:: This thesis is an IRB-exempt oral history focused on the non-profit Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) in Corvallis, Oregon. The CMLC, formerly on 9th Street, was known to many community members as the Yellow House. The Yellow House was a dedicated community-based space where people of all cultures could come...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Shawn Wilson (2008), storytelling is a teaching tool where "stories allow listeners to draw their own

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Perspectives on Pits of the Western Stemmed Tradition : An Analysis on the Contents of Feature 59 at the Cooper’s Ferry Site

Integrating Systemic and Applied Anthropology Approaches to Identify Barriers and Enablers to Accessing Healthcare in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan

“Gold Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care for Soil in Willamette Valley, Oregon

Subsistence Harvest Diversity in Alaskan Food Sharing Networks

Risk Perceptions in the Oregon Hazelnut Growing Industry: An Exploratory Study of a Recovering Industry

Kemenik Natajsaj Qach’ob’oj Chirij le Xib’inel / Weaving to Remember Our Ghost Stories: A Queer and Trans Memoria Histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War

Training Community Health Workers in Oregon during a Public Health Crisis: Reflections on the Importance of Mental Health in Care-based Work

¿Que es rico? In Support of the ¡Que Rico Es! 250mil Familias Campaña : Practice, Ideology, Rica, Sana, y De Nuestra Tierra

Cosmic Heritages: Multiraciality and Epistemologies of Black and Native Storytelling

A Thematic Analysis of Three Women Elect : Their Life Stories Via Autobiography

Ecological baselines for Oregon's coast: a report for agencies that manage Oregon's coastal habitats for ecological and economic sustainability, and for all who are interested in the welfare of wildlife that inhabit our coast and its estuaries

Shifting Roots: Reimagining the Genealogical Roots of Disability Studies and Mad Studies through Women of Color Feminisms

Curandera feminism : tracing the possibilities of healing institutional harm

The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

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