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  • Food for Axiology : Acknowledging Relationships

    Creator:
    Piquette, Daniel S.
    Abstract:
    An overarching explanation for environmental degradation has been humans' disconnection from the natural world. Utilizing Whiteheadian theory, I offer that there is no disconnection. Rather, I propose that there is a dearth of relational acknowledgement. I suggest that the Cartesian dualism and modern science led to an illusory belief that...
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    Director of the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion Dean of the Graduate School

  • 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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    Deprtment of Anthr,Olpoogy Dean of Graduate 'c Date thesis is presented June 6, 1994 Typed by Roger L

  • 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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    Director of the School of Language, Culture, and Society Dean of the Graduate School

  • 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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    Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent collection

  • Advocacy travel, creating social and ideological change : a comparison of travelers to Cuba and Chiapas

    Creator:
    Donckers, Jana L.
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    As a result of academic research into the effects of mass travel, an industry of alternative tourism has emerged. Application of this research has resulted in myriad forms of tourism, two of these being ecotourism and educational travel. Ecotourism represents a response to what is the destructive nature of the...
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    , 2001. APPROVED: Major Professor, representing Applied Anthropology Chair of D6artment of Dean of

  • 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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    of Language, Culture, and Society Dean of the Graduate School I

  • 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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    presented on November 19, 2003 APPROVED: Chair of Depthtment of Anthropolbgy Dean of Graduate S I

  • 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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    , representing Applied Anthropology Chair of the Department of Anthropology Dean of the

  • Improving community profiles for Oregon fisheries and coastal communities through collaboration

    Creator:
    Package, Christina
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    In an effort to supplement the recently completed NOAA fishing community profiles, three coastal Oregon communities were chosen as sites for a collaborative project designed to produce long-form profiles. In order to provide a representation of the coast Newport, Port Orford, and Garibali, Oregon were included based on community size,...
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    Chair of the Department of Anthropology Dean of the Graduate School I understand

  • 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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    Anthropology Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my thesis will become part of