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  • Defining oppression, demanding childhood : the vision and work of an Indian social action group

    Creator:
    Henderson, Laura A.
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    Mukti Ashram is a rehabilitation center in north India that works with ex-child laborer boys. Fieldwork completed at the ashram in 1997-98 centered around the issue of the organization's attempt to enact social change through the engineering of community within the ashram's walls. Several fundamental processes that contribute to this...
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    and limitations for social change. Within this controlled environment, the leaders of the ashram have

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

    Creator:
    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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    , and things that make up our physical environment differ in a multitude of ways, only some of these

  • Imagining them, reimagining ourselves : a case study of cultural appropriation and the politics of identity

    Creator:
    Smith-Nolan, Mary K.
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    Several popular cultural movements emphasizing indigenous spirituality have arisen in the United States and Europe within the past thirty years. Spiritual discourses attributed to Native Americans, among other groups, are borrowed by Euro-Americans in search of alternatives to dominant ideologies. In such a circumstance, Native Americans become part of a...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mary K. Smith-Nolan for the degree

  • The magnitiseur and other stories

    Creator:
    van Belle, Christine E.
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    This thesis is a collection of three short stories and the beginnings of a novel. A similar thread is woven through all the stories: in the attempt to know spiritual truth, what it is to be a woman, and to know themselves, the various protagonists precariously oscillate between the seemingly...
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    Expert," although set in the alien environment of northeastern China, touches on similar issues of

  • "Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

    Creator:
    Hiatt, Bryan
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    Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
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    Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

    Creator:
    Scott, Ron
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    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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    who seek different means of finding freedom within this controlling environment. Gibson's Necromancer

  • Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

    Creator:
    Gregory, Ronald L.
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    Remnants of railroad logging camps, and their associated features, are perhaps some of the most common archaeological resources found on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. Many camps have already been located, their cultural materials inventoried, and networks of logging railroad grades mapped. Yet, despite these efforts, little can be...
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    enough of pie" (October 1979), both in the Journal of Forest History, address issues of the quantity and

  • The influence on Manchu women of changes in social institutions and the sinification of Manchu Society

    Creator:
    Fang, Jin-cai
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    Gender relations as well as the social situation of Manchu women have long been ignored in studies of the cultural evolution of the Manchu. By setting the discussion of Manchu women in the context of cultural adaptation, this study reintroduces gender and women's problems into the research on the Manchu...
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    very rare. Take the Journal of Manchu Minority Research, for example. Among journals focusing on

  • An analysis of social relationships at a development site in Kenya

    Creator:
    Burke, Deborah A.
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    Both development and post-structuralist anthropologists have critiqued development. Development anthropologists are concerned that development does not take adequate account of the social and cultural factors of developing nations, while post structuralists question the ontology of development and assert that domination over developing nations is inherent in the concept of development....
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    developmentmarketing strategies, technology transfer, food security issues, the socioeconomic environment of the

  • The role(s) of literature in introductory composition classrooms

    Creator:
    Caster, Peter
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    First year college writing classes originated in the United States at Harvard University in 1874. Since then, theorizing such a course has proven a place of contention, as its purposes and subjects have proven difficult to sort and impossible to agree upon. When Harvard first began teaching introductory composition, literature...
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    discussion in journal of College English that focuses on literature in writing classrooms; the chapter also