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Making ends meet : hunger survival strategies in two rural Oregon communities

Creator:: Abel, Talya Shuler
Abstract:: Food insecurity and hunger have become persistent problems resulting from an increase in impoverished segments of populations worldwide. For those not affected, the problem seems unnoticeable – it is happening somewhere else far away from them. However, in the United States, the number of people living below the poverty level...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: ______________________________________________________________ Joan E. Gross Food

Using computers for reversing language shift : ethical and pragmatic implications from a Wasco case study

Creator:: Denis, Armelle
Abstract:: Indigenous languages worldwide are rapidly disappearing, forced out of use by the spread of dominant Western culture and its languages. On the Warm Springs reservation of Oregon, the Culture and Heritage department, the tribal agency in charge of language preservation, is offering instruction in all three languages of the reservation:...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the words of Commissioner of Indian Affairs J.D.C. Atkins in his 1887 report: "No unity or community

To grow or to buy : food staples and cultural identity in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes

Creator:: Karnes, Daniel A.
Abstract:: In this era of free trade and globalization, food is traveling greater and greater distances to its consumers. This is causing small farms and small farmers all over the world to protest as their livelihood is being undercut by cheap agricultural commodities from outside their communities. In the Ecuadorian Andes,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________________ Joan E. Gross In

“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:: : ______________________________________________________ Joan E. Gross This thesis investigates how beginning, women farmers, within in a women

The Federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) in relation to higher education students and their eligibility for the program

Creator:: Stone, Vesna Grace
Abstract:: Food insecurity is a widely researched global public health issue, but students in higher education are frequently omitted from the data and are not widely recognized as a population that faces hunger. This thesis explores the college student population in relation to food insecurity and, in particular, their attempt to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Joan E. Gross Food insecurity is a widely researched global public health issue, but

"They said I would never amount to anything" : the life of a Kootenai woman

Creator:: Wheaton-Abraham, Jyl M.
Abstract:: There is a fundamental distortion in our understanding of Native people, especially Native women. This distortion is rooted in imperialism and the colonization of Native lands and has created a dominant/subordinate relationship between Non-Native/Native people. Anthropological life history research has traditionally reflected this relationship. As a Native woman, the author...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Kootenai Woman. Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Joan E. Gross

Latino youth, gangs, and community activism : a case study of advocacy anthropology

Creator:: Kabarec-Quiroz, Tina M.
Abstract:: A social issue of great importance in contemporary society is the involvement of youth in gangs. Youth involvement in gang activity has dominated the national media and the minds of public policy makers in contemporary society. In this thesis I examine how Latino and Chicano youth sub-culture, language, dress, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Gangs, and Community Activism: A Case of Advocacy Anthropology. Abstract approved: Joan E. Gross A

Opposing worldviews : Cuicatec values of cultural and natural resources in a western paradigm

Creator:: Hearn, Kyle P.
Abstract:: Both conflicts and new identities result when indigenous' traditional values of landscape and resource management are superimposed with federal governments' management of archaeological and forest resources in federally designated protected areas. This thesis examines the relationship and discourse between two Cuicatec towns in Oaxaca, Mexico and three Mexican government agencies...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Paradigm Abstract approved: Joan E. Gross Both conflicts and new identities result

Rhetoric versus practice : strategic language education and socialization of immigrant children in Sweden, the preschool years

Creator:: Nordlander, Amy Nastrom
Abstract:: Sweden's changing demographics, due to recent migrations in the last fifty years, have affected the Swedish educational system and Sweden's language policy. Funding for special education in Sweden regarding its minority populations is on the decline. Previous forced linguistic assimilation has occurred in Sweden among the Finnish population to the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Years. Abstract approved: Joan E. Gross Sweden's changing demographics, due to recent migrations in

Cosmovisions and Farming : An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers' Environmental Values along the Willamette River

Creator:: French, Melissa M.
Abstract:: Understanding which factors motivate farmers to adopt certain practices is an important part of helping to solve many agri-environmental issues. This study uses 19 interviews with farmers along Oregon’s Willamette River, a statewide producer survey, and select interviews with organizations and agencies active in the farming community to examine the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: River Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Joan E

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Making ends meet : hunger survival strategies in two rural Oregon communities

Using computers for reversing language shift : ethical and pragmatic implications from a Wasco case study

To grow or to buy : food staples and cultural identity in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes

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

The Federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) in relation to higher education students and their eligibility for the program

"They said I would never amount to anything" : the life of a Kootenai woman

Latino youth, gangs, and community activism : a case study of advocacy anthropology

Opposing worldviews : Cuicatec values of cultural and natural resources in a western paradigm

Rhetoric versus practice : strategic language education and socialization of immigrant children in Sweden, the preschool years

Cosmovisions and Farming : An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers' Environmental Values along the Willamette River

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