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What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

Creator:: Anderson, Jessica
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Fina Carpena-Mendez The

Making & finding childhoods : forest schooling in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Bustamante, Stephanie
Abstract:: East School is a private, forest schooling program in the Pacific Northwest. This ethnography focuses on student engagement with teacher led efforts to "educate" them within an emergent social system depending on new subjectivities. I ground this premise in a reflexive analytical framework, unpacking an implicit ethnotheory of perception as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Fina Carpena-Méndez East School is a private, forest schooling program in the Pacific

Everyday Religious Spiritualities: Navigating Inequalities Through Orientations, Interactions, and Reflexivity

Creator:: Lopez, Andres L.
Abstract:: The research and analysis presented in this dissertation illustrate how individuals enact lived religion as they seek to navigate social inequalities. The enactment of lived religion involves directing attention towards orientations. I use the term orientations in the sense articulated by Ahmed (2004), to allude to how bodies are situated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Fina Carpena-Mendez The research and analysis presented in this dissertation illustrate how

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Creator:: Visconti, Lauren A.
Abstract:: Projected to reach one million people next year, international students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the existing study abroad paradigm is the first step to more accurately understand the lived experience of an educational migrant. Discovering the perceptions of what value an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Assemblages and Adaptation: The Influence of Multispecies Social Networks on Small Farmers’ Perceptions of and Responses to Climate Change in Oregon

Creator:: Parks, Melissa
Abstract:: This study explores how multispecies social networks influence small farmers' perceptions of and responses to climate change across Oregon. Local food sovereignty and food system resilience depend on a robust local food system in which small farms play a critical role. To maintain their viability, small farmers must adapt to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: farmers’ decision-making process (Prokopy et al. 2015; Schattman, Méndez, et al. 2018; Schattman, Roesch

Analysis of Culturally Derived Speleothems by INAA and ICP-MS, a Multi-Analytical Approach

Creator:: Nation, Humberto E.
Abstract:: Over the last two decades, archaeologists have documented the widespread ancient Maya practice of collecting cave formations (speleothems) from ritually important caves and transporting them to their settlements. Little is known about their specific uses within settlements, but it is hypothesized that these objects convey a degree of sanctity from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Humberto Eduardo Nation for the degree of Master of Science in

She is Somebody: The Care and Labor of Undocu/DACAmented Mothers

Creator:: Hurtado Moreno, Argenis
Abstract:: This thesis is an offering, request, testimonio, refusal, and compliance to the discipline of anthropology and higher education. In this thesis, I engage with different forms of storytelling to highlight the relationships of mixed-status families in the United States. To accomplish this, I draw on the experiences of my mother...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Goldsmiths, Eduardo Kohn, Hannah Knox, Jerome Whitington, Tyler Zoanni, Krista Billingsley, Taapsi

Comparing Random and Nonrandom Spatial Patterns of Artifacts within Lithostratigraphic Unit 3 at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho

Creator:: Gregory, Alex R.
Abstract:: Archaeological investigations at the Cooper's Ferry site in Western Idaho have recovered cultural remains dating to 16,000 years ago, suggesting the oldest human occupation recorded in North America. However, many archaeologists have argued the initial peopling of North America occurred no earlier than the opening of an ice-free corridor between...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in the archaeological sciences (e.g., Carrero-Pazos et al. 2019; Landeschi 2019; Mendez-Quintas et

A GIS investigation of indigenous intensification of native food plants : humans as environmental variable in maxent habitat suitability modeling of Camassia in Oregon

Creator:: Elliott, Braden T.
Abstract:: This thesis merges the fields of Ecology and Anthropology by applying Habitat Suitability Modeling to the relationship between people and plants in the Pacific Northwest. In it, I create and optimize two Maxent habitat suitability models for camas (Camassia spp.) in Oregon. The first model describes the physical environment of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Lisa Price, Fina Carpena-Mendez, Shane Macfarlan, Leah Minc, and Loren Davis. Many OSU Geosciences

Development and Trial of a Usability Testing Protocol for Biomass Cookstoves : An Interdisciplinary Approach

Creator:: Moses, Nicholas D.
Abstract:: Improved cookstoves have been designed and disseminated for several decades in an effort to address the human health and environmental issues caused by the inefficient, traditional biomass cooking and heating methods used by 40% of the world’s people. Engineers and designers working on these improved stoves have tended to focus...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

Making & finding childhoods : forest schooling in the Pacific Northwest

Everyday Religious Spiritualities: Navigating Inequalities Through Orientations, Interactions, and Reflexivity

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Assemblages and Adaptation: The Influence of Multispecies Social Networks on Small Farmers’ Perceptions of and Responses to Climate Change in Oregon

Analysis of Culturally Derived Speleothems by INAA and ICP-MS, a Multi-Analytical Approach

She is Somebody: The Care and Labor of Undocu/DACAmented Mothers

Comparing Random and Nonrandom Spatial Patterns of Artifacts within Lithostratigraphic Unit 3 at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho

A GIS investigation of indigenous intensification of native food plants : humans as environmental variable in maxent habitat suitability modeling of Camassia in Oregon

Development and Trial of a Usability Testing Protocol for Biomass Cookstoves : An Interdisciplinary Approach

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