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

Creator:

Hannigan-Luther, Kristen L.

Abstract:

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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Masters Thesis

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kristen L. Hannigan-Luther for the
Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Creator:

Takahashi, Tokiko

Abstract:

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

Creator:

Montañez, Morgan

Abstract:

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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Masters Thesis