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A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

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Montañez, Morgan

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The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low-income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in the act of being poor in America. Rather than participating solely in government safety nets, these people reject “hand-outs” in favor of exchanging...

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Serving Amid Institutional Camouflage : The Invisibility of School Food Service Workers

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Byrd, Janette

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The products, processes, and tools of school feeding programs have been examined from multiple perspectives and disciplines in an attempt to improve child nutrition outcomes, to support local and national agriculture, and increase sustainability practices. There is little qualitative research on the role, needs, and experiences of school food service...

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International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

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Visconti, Lauren A.

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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...

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Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

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D'Alessandro, Erica

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Limited research has analyzed how the values espoused by Western alternative food systems, such as taste and territoriality, are adopted and refashioned in post-socialist societies. Muscovites now echo the global quality turn that reconnects consumers to their food sources. This research qualitatively explores the perspectives of the cosmopolitan consumers of...

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Perception and action : an analysis on communication between U.S. sponsorship and Russian speaking immigrants

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Johnston, Candace G.

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The problems of Russian speaking refugees from the Ukraine region of the former Soviet Union are the basis for ethnographic inquiry and the delineation of the role of voluntary agencies who assist their resettlement in Portland, Oregon. Interpretive methods are the foundation for an analysis of Ukrainians' perceptions of problems...

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Development projects and questions of empowerment: a Salvadorean women's cooperative

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Hannigan-Luther, Kristen L.

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Many development organizations now recognize the importance of culturally sensitive project design and implementation. Unfortunately most of these groups continue to disregard the significance of gender. This qualitative research examines a women's cooperative in rural El Salvador which formed in order to find a means of generating income and to...

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The emergency department as a provider of nonemergent care

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Stiles, Catherine M.

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Emergency departments (ED) provide access to care for large numbers of patients who have nonemergent medical needs. More than half of the patients presenting to the ED at Salem Hospital in Salem, Oregon, were found to be seeking care for nonemergent medical needs. In an effort to provide an alternative...

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Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

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Takahashi, Tokiko

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Based on the author's ethnographic research at the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan, this thesis explains a cultural process of the local people's synthesis of the values they place on nature and their everyday behavior in a modern industrial world. Explicated by ethnographic narrative, this study focuses on a revitalization...

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Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

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Cassell, Christopher J.

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Lower rates of computer adoption and usage in rural areas has been called a "digital divide." This work explores the current state of connectivity within a rural town of the Pacific Northwest with a quantitative and qualitative overview of computer usage and access within civic and activity clubs, ranging from...

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An observation of the history and discrimination of the Buraku in modern day Japan

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Kawano, Mika

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The Buraku people have been segregated, oppressed, and discriminated against throughout Japanese history. The Japanese can dismiss the Buraku issue because of assimilation theories, the belief in homogeneity, and passive attitudes by the Buraku people. The Buraku Liberation League (BLL), which has fought for equal rights on behalf of the...

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Anthropology15
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Gross, Joan4
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Oregon State University. Graduate School19

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Masters Thesis19

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Agriculture, Cooperative -- Russia -- Moscow1
Americans -- Attitudes1
Animated films -- Japan1
Buddhism and culture1
Buddhist religious articles -- United States -- Public opinion1
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