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Archival Anthropometry: An Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

Creator:: Kirkpatrick, Kristin A.
Abstract:: Franz Boas collected anthropometric data on approximately 15,000 people from over 200 Native American tribal groups between 1888 and 1902. Twelve basic measurements were taken: standing height, shoulder height, height to digit III, arm span, sitting height, shoulder width, head length and width, face height and breadth, and nose height...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

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

Schulenburg's Tsimshian Grammar

Creator:: Schulenburg, Albrecht Conon, Graf von der, 1865-1902 and Flaherty, Virginia C.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: speakers left in 1977) 2 Franz Boas notes in his grammar The Tsimshian Indian 122EILa_ge, a published

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

Descriptive Analysis of Human Remains from the Fuller and Fanning Mounds, Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Stepp, David
Abstract:: The study presents the results of a descriptive analysis of the skeletal remains of 66 individuals recovered from the Fuller and Fanning Mound sites, located on the Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon, excavated in 1941-42 by W. T. Edmundson and William S. Laughlin. The literature and original field notes have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: osteological collections discovered in the region as well as Franz Boas' anthropometric data based on

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

Governmental policies and the preservation and display of Native American cultural resources in the middle Columbia Basin

Creator:: Michael, Elva Olson
Abstract:: Prior to advent of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest, the Middle Columbia River Basin was the location of highly developed native cultures. For centuries it was the center of very important native trade networks that extended over western North America and a site of important intertribal rituals relating to renewal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: - gist, Dr. Franz Boas (1858-1942). Cressman began training himself as an archaeologist, subse- quently

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

Man and the land : an ecological history of fire and grazing on eastern Oregon rangelands

Creator:: Shinn, Dean Allison
Abstract:: Ecological and historical information are combined in examining the environmental influence of fire and grazing on rangelands in eastern Oregon through time. Competitive relationships between herbaceous and woody flora in the northern Great Basin are discussed, focusing broadly on the shrubsteppe regions 'of Franklin and Dyrness (1973) but with special...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A New Method for the Analysis of Human Hair : A Morphological Case Study of Five Sample Populations

Creator:: Weitzel, Misty A.
Abstract:: Hair is an important piece of evidence in forensic and archaeological investigations. Analysis of the morphological features of hair has been reported since at least the early 1800's. However, many questions still remain unanswered such as, how can human groups (or local populations) be analyzed and possibly distinguished from each...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: American Museum of Natural History for providing the Sioux and Oneida hair samples from the Franz Boas

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Archival Anthropometry: An Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

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

Schulenburg's Tsimshian Grammar

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

Descriptive Analysis of Human Remains from the Fuller and Fanning Mounds, Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon

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

Governmental policies and the preservation and display of Native American cultural resources in the middle Columbia Basin

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

Man and the land : an ecological history of fire and grazing on eastern Oregon rangelands

A New Method for the Analysis of Human Hair : A Morphological Case Study of Five Sample Populations

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