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Filtering by: Creator Cullinan, Grace L. Remove constraint Creator: Cullinan, Grace L. Advisor Gross, Joan Remove constraint Advisor: Gross, Joan Degree Name Master of Arts (M.A.) Remove constraint Degree Name: Master of Arts (M.A.)

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  • The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

    Creator:
    Gann, Tamara S.
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    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...
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    patience and thoughtful teaching, which has given this work the elegance and grace these women's stories

  • Anthropological case studies of religious syncretism in Bolivia

    Creator:
    Lord, Jonathan
    Abstract:
    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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  • Modern music and cultural identity in Corsica

    Creator:
    Baldridge, Christopher M.
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    Music is one of the most important aspects of cultural identity in Corsica. Rooted in ancient history and revitalized in the revolutionary political climate of the 1960s and 70s, its popular choral form--the paghjella--has come to define modern music upon the island. Music, like language, has the ability to communicate...
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    better protect it." (L. 2001: 14). Corsican (choral) music, while not yet an active symbol used by the

  • Radicalizing Food: Navigating the Radical Fault Lines of our Local Food Systems—on Farm, at Market, & Online

    Creator:
    Bennett, Laura E.
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    Mainstream local food systems focus on environmental and individual health, but labor is out of sight and out of mind. We begin with a story that introduces the immigrant in the room, the locavore’s blind spots, and the need to move beyond mainstream environmentalism and embrace social justice. In the...
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    ), our local food systems are a saving grace. They work successfully toward mitigating environmental