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  • Japanese animation in America and its fans

    Creator:
    Davis, Jesse Christian
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    This research covers Japanese animation and its popularity in the United States. It focuses on hardcore fans for whom this animation has become part of their lives. Using interviews of self-identified anime fans, this research explores how anime fandom has become a part of American life despite originating in a...
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    Hokusai’s manga from a book of prints…. 8 3. A group shot of Naruto cosplayers at Sakuracon 2006 in

  • Living between two cultures : an ethnographic study of American women converts to Islam

    Creator:
    Fisher, Dianna M.
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    This thesis explores the reasons for conversion to Islam for ten well-educated, Caucasian, American born women of European descent in a small, relatively affluent college town in Oregon, United States. It follows their process of constructing a new identity with their families, with friends, within the Muslim community and within...
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    “new grounds of being” by reading books, watching television, attending lectures and other impersonal

  • Neo-Ottoman perspectives : Turkish identity and culinary culture in a sociopolitical context

    Creator:
    Kinoğlu, Sera D.
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    As Turkey's cultural and economic climate has experienced dramatic shifts in accordance with its changing role in global society, a neo-Ottoman movement has taken root in recent years which can offer insight into the new Turkish identity. This sociopolitical movement captures a diverse set of cultural attributes through a contemporary...
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    ). Sutton’s book on the anthropology of food and memory (2011) may be the most comprehensive of its kind to

  • Fishing Guides in the Anthropocene

    Creator:
    Wind, Thad A.
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    How do fishing guides of the Cascade and Coast Range rivers negotiate the conflicting tensions between their client’s desire to experience the wild and the extractive nature based tourism of their role as fishing guides? How do they position their services relative to the environment and an imagined landscape that...
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    retain their clientele. Newsletters are electronic and blogging has joined books and magazines as

  • Going somewhere or getting stuck : transitions to adulthood in rural Oregon

    Creator:
    Cunningham, Sarah E.
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    This dissertation explores the real world problem of rural youth out-migration and finds that the central problem is one of persistent class difference in this rural Oregon town. The research that informs this dissertation was conducted in a rural community of approximately 2300 residents in Eastern Oregon, here called Talltown....
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    Dissertation

  • Evaluation of the 2001 pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

    Creator:
    Saylor, Kirsten N.
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    The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), piloted in Oregon in 2001, provided $100 worth of vouchers (aka coupons) to low-income seniors to buy fresh local produce from farmers at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Presented in a political ecology framework, this research integrated the perspectives of beneficiaries and their...
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    Masters Thesis

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

    Creator:
    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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    Masters Thesis

  • Civic agriculture : the successes, trials, and future of the local food movement in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Klingensmith, Thomas S.
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    This study investigated the local and sustainable food movements in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The aim of the research was to better understand the current condition of the phenomenon, what it means to the communities studied and the future role it will play in the state. Other research objectives...
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    . In fact entire books can struggle to nail down what the term means in all contexts, but there are

  • Just do it : an analysis of cultural factors behind the growth of Nike, Inc.

    Creator:
    Chen, Roger L.
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    The success of NIKE, Inc. is deemed miracle by professionals on both Wall Street and Madison Avenue. Research done in the past tends to credit the growth of NIKE, Inc. to its marketing strategies. By placing the achievement of the company in the postmodern context, this study analyzes the cultural...
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    factors in advertising, a significant sector of postmodern consumer culture, are rare. By conducting

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

    Creator:
    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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    by in the rare vehicle. They were unaccustomed to seeing foreigners and stared intently at me as I