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A free boundary value problem modeling streambed erosion

Creator:: Helfenstein, Franz Hugo
Abstract:: Our purpose is twofold, to derive a 2-dimensional model of streambed erosion and to develop a solution procedure to solve the equations of our model. The flow domain, which varies in time, is bounded above by a free surface and is bounded below by an erodable streambed. An initial flow...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Franz Hugo Helfenstein for the

The rhetorical dynamics of culture : an interdisciplinary approach to a synthesis between rhetoric and culture

Creator:: Tobey, Toni K.
Abstract:: The frame of reference for understanding the rhetorical significance of cultural acts lies in the identification and explication of the diversity of theories which encompass sociological and anthropological definitions of culture. The paradigms presented in this thesis range from unilinear evolution, biological and environmental determinism, materialism, historical ethnology and reductionism...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: particularism, a major school of thought founded by American anthropologist Franz Boas [1858- 1942]. Boas

When Celilo was Celilo : an analysis of salmon use during the past 11,000 years in the Columbia Plateau

Creator:: Thomison, Patrick
Abstract:: The presence and significance of salmon for prehistoric and aboriginal people of the Columbia Plateau is a matter of considerable debate among anthropologists, archaeologists and historians. Data from over 100 archaeological sites are scrutinized in the light of an example salmon fishery developed from ethnographic and archaeological information on aboriginal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: anthropology, under the direction of Franz Boas, emphasis was placed primarily on cultures, and the unique

Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

Creator:: Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
Abstract:: The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Franz Boas who "overthrew" the cultural evolutionist theories (Pelto 1966:23). Boas was trained as a

Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

Creator:: Possiel, William John
Abstract:: The dramatic upsurge of contract-supported archaeological activity, generated by legislative action, has precipitated an increase in information about Oregon's prehistoric peoples. This information, however, has not been presented in a format which can be easily understood by the general public. This study presents an account of early peoples in Oregon,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: mountaintop - Mt. Mazama, in this instance (Figure 6). Howell Williams (1942) described Mt. Mazama as a peak

The cultural significance of mountain regions : implications for the Calapooya Divide, Oregon

Creator:: Starr, Karen J.
Abstract:: Altitudinal variations in upland regions of the earth create variable climatic zones and conditions. Plant and animal communities must adapt to these conditions, and when they reach their tolerance limits for environmental conditions at the upper levels of a zone, they cease to exist in the environment. Humans also utilize...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the world (Smith 1915). In the United States, Franz Boas was also influenced by the German

An investigation of ethnocentrism, its elements, factors affecting its intensity, and implications for cross-cultural activities

Creator:: Olufson, Loreen C.
Abstract:: Ethnocentrism is a term for an attitude which causes individuals to place their culture at the center of the universe as they see it. Other cultures are evaluated in terms of the culture of the individual and are often valued less. Ethnocentrism and the behaviors associated with it have frequently...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: is obscured or so terse that they are inaccurate. In the early part of this century, Franz Boas

The Takelma and their Athapascan kin : an ethnographic synthesis of southwestern Oregon

Creator:: Gray, Dennis J.
Abstract:: This study is a synthesis of the available ethnographic and relevant archaeological data pertaining to the Native American groups who formerly occupied the upper Rogue River drainage of southwestern Oregon. The information presented in this synthesis concerns the material, social and religious aspects of aboriginal life as practiced by the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: was a student, admirer and friend of Franz Boas (Mandelbaum 1951). John Peabody Harrington, probably

McDonald-Dunn Forests: human use and occupation

Creator:: Jackson, Royal G.
Abstract:: Submitted to John Beuter, Director of School Forests, School of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
Resource Type:: Book
Full Text:: and national movement. The abandonment of Camp Arboretum in 1942, the CCC installation at Peavy

Sweatlodge participation among Nez Perce women

Creator:: Carman, Carol J.
Abstract:: This research was undertaken to examine the symbolism surrounding the sweatlodge and how it pertained to women in Native American cultures. After an extensive literature search I determined that there was little or no information concerning the use of the sweatlodge by women. The goal of the research was an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: centers originated among German scholars and was further developed by Franz Boas in regard to studies of

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A free boundary value problem modeling streambed erosion

The rhetorical dynamics of culture : an interdisciplinary approach to a synthesis between rhetoric and culture

When Celilo was Celilo : an analysis of salmon use during the past 11,000 years in the Columbia Plateau

Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

The cultural significance of mountain regions : implications for the Calapooya Divide, Oregon

An investigation of ethnocentrism, its elements, factors affecting its intensity, and implications for cross-cultural activities

The Takelma and their Athapascan kin : an ethnographic synthesis of southwestern Oregon

McDonald-Dunn Forests: human use and occupation

Sweatlodge participation among Nez Perce women

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