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  • The Culture of Names – A Comparison between Vietnam and Denmark

    Creator:
    Ngo, Toan Tri Dung
    Abstract:
    This project discusses the topic of personal names and the cultures of different peoples and their particularities, specifically in Vietnam and Denmark. The first part of this paper gives a brief history of naming traditions (mostly relating to Western European traditions). The second part of the paper compares two families...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    interviews, books on culture and language (in English and Vietnamese), as well as various data records (in

  • Megascopic plant remains from three housepits along the Applegate River, southwest Oregon

    Creator:
    Cole, Madeline L.
    Abstract:
    In 1982 a protohistoric archaeological site along the Applegate River in southwest Oregon was excavated by Oregon State University Department of Anthropology. Three housepits and a possible menstrual but were uncovered with lithic, faunal, and archaeobotanical elements recovered from house floors and hearths. Seven botanical taxa were represented by carbonized...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    organic material has been extremely rare. Essentially, protohistoric Native American plant use in this

  • Technological progress, disacculturation, and our public schools

    Creator:
    Morita, Sally J.
    Abstract:
    The problems facing our nation's public schools today cannot be divorced from our enthusiasm for technology and the positive relationship we believe it shares with our perception of progress. Based on the second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy, author Jeremy Rifkin argues that the development of increasingly "efficient"...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    during interviews in order to gain entrance into pre-school. Over the past few years a number of books

  • Spousal Violence: An Exploration of the Interrelationships of Fundamentalist Protestant Religious Discourse, Women's Economic Dependency and Violent Conflict in Marital Relationships

    Creator:
    Goetz, Kathryn W.
    Abstract:
    Violence within marital dyads is a problem with deep historic roots in American culture. Although the family is idealized as a safe and loving haven from a cruel world, this ideal is often not achieved by many couples. This study develops an integrated theoretical perspective that combines feminist theory and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Gelles & Steinmetz, 1980, p. 4). Domestic violence, once thought to be a rare phenomenon in America

  • Mayan Bilinguality and Cultural Change in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica

    Creator:
    Smith, William Hoyt
    Abstract:
    The importance of language and bilinguality in the development, perpetuation, and "degeneration" or change of culture is a central theme throughout this treatise. Original pictorial representations of Mayan hieroglyphic sculpture are included as examples, and represent artistic styles and language variations of written Cholan and Yucatec. Modern Cholan and Yucatecan...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    first Castilian grammar book, "Grammatica de is lengua Castilla" (Meyer and Sherman, 1991: 96). This

  • Zooarchaeologjcal and Taphonomic Investigations of Site 35JA42, Upper Applegate River, Southwestern Oregon

    Creator:
    Schmitt, Dave N.
    Abstract:
    Site 35JA42 represents the first protohistoric village complex excavated in Southwest Oregon. Analyses of animal bones recovered from the site offer the first significant insights into human subsistence behaviors in this region. Although the faunal assemblage is extremely fragmented, detailed zooarchaeological analysis indicates that deer were the primary meat resource...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    ., NISP = 1) and black bear (from level 1, NISP =1) are rare. Figures 10, 11 and 12 illustrate the

  • Museum education programs : Portland, Oregon

    Creator:
    Scherer, Leigh Anne Whitney
    Abstract:
    In this study I explored the variety of educational opportunities available in museums. Next, I examined the museum education programs in the Portland, Oregon area and described what types of opportunities are available to teachers. Finally, I made suggestions for teachers on how to best access museum programs and for...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    the museum, is very rare, but it is the most useful and fulfilling for both parties, schools and

  • 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
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    , in a home rich in books, and dedicated to ideas and the spirit of learning. To my parents, Buss and

  • Erotic Capital and Women’s Online Sexual Marketing

    Creator:
    Perkins, Abby M.
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    The purpose of this paper was to discuss the theory of erotic capital proposed by Catherine Hakim and how this theory affects online advertising done by sex workers. Through analyzing 29 different pages relating to the commercial sex industry, I observed how sexual capital is utilized in marketing strategies and...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    (London; New York: New York: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 64. 5

  • Los Pioneros de Oregon: An Examination of the Loss and Revitalization of Tejano Cultural Identity

    Creator:
    Leach, Jessie
    Abstract:
    Each year, numerous people attend cultural events in the United States, be they large celebrations such as New Orleans’ Mardi Gras or one of many numerous Cinco de Mayo festivals throughout the country or smaller, more specialized events. Many times, the cultural aspects take a backseat to profits, which leads...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    book with the names of all the people in the community who came to the event in previous years. This