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  • Transcendence: May Time Take These Bones, They Are Not Mine - A Poetry Collection

    Creator:
    Bayly, Alice M.
    Abstract:
    In ethnographic research, an anthropologist becomes integrated in the community of their study. Throughout this process, the anthropologist adapts to the cultural practices and the language of this community, becoming intimately connected to them. Ethnography communicates, through the anthropologist’s experience, crucial practices, tensions, and values discovered during research. However, it...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Mine. Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ Jennifer

  • The distribution of geologic and artifact obsidian from the Silver Lake/Sycan Marsh geochemical source group, South-Central Oregon

    Creator:
    Thatcher, Jennifer J.
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    Geochemical characterization methods are commonly used in the reconstruction of prehistoric raw material use and procurement systems. Trace element studies of lithic source material and artifacts, specifically those made of obsidian, can reveal important information about the environmental and cultural factors which influence the prehistoric distribution of raw material. The...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Jennifer J. Thatcher for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Anthropology

  • Iroquois of the Pacific Northwest fur trade : their archaeology and history

    Creator:
    Jameson, Jennifer E.
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    During the early 19th Century, the fur trade brought many Iroquois to the Pacific Northwest as working primarily as voyageurs for the North West Company. When the North West Company merged with the Hudson's Bay Company, the Iroquois employees merged as well. After retirement, some settled in the Willamette Valley...
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    Masters Thesis
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    JamesonThesis AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jennifer E

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

    Creator:
    Ngo, Toan Tri Dung
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    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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    ...................................................................................... 39 Table 9. Northern Vietnamese Dialect

  • The Skeleton in the Closet: An Historic Forensic Case from Scio, Oregon

    Creator:
    Alapisco, Dawn Marie
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    In August of 2011, Jenny Minten came across an old coffin, complete with a skeleton, in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Scio lodge. After it was determined that the skeleton did not represent a modern forensic case, the remains were donated to the Oregon State University Anthropology Department....
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    Honors College Thesis
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    writing meetings!!! I wish to thank Jennifer Schindell for choosing OSU as the recipient of “The

  • Advertising strategy and anthropology : a focused look at consumers and their organizing devices

    Creator:
    Whiddon, Jeremiah J.
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    This thesis was designed and written with advertising stakeholders in mind. The aim of my thesis is to illustrate how listening to and understanding the behavior and voices of consumers from the perspective of a trained anthropologist can improve advertising strategies. My instruments for conducting this research include an in-depth...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Virginia PDA 9Jane F 28Veterinanan D.V.M. Michigan Non-PDA 10 Jennifer F 29 Social Worker Bachelor's

  • Peavy Arboretum : an archaeological and historical investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape

    Creator:
    Hylton, Lindon B.
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    This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...
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    Masters Thesis
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    thanks to Jennifer Thatcher. Jennifer Thatcher very skillfully made the oversized map that is included

  • An evaluation of the archaeological potential of Riverfront Park in Corvallis, Oregon

    Creator:
    Littlefield, Steven W.
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    The archaeological resources contained in Corvallis Riverfront Commemorative Park (RCP) have a great potential to add to the historical record of the warehouse district of the original town of Marysville (Corvallis). The City of Corvallis' proposed Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project and proposed changes to Riverfront Commemorative Park threaten to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    thank Chester Schmidt. Finally, I would like to thank my Mom, Dad, Sue, Shawn, and Jennifer for

  • Alaska Native Education : Sheldon Jackson to Paul Jensen 1884-1984

    Creator:
    Martain, Jacqueline
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    This thesis will look at Paul Jensen while he was an education professor at Western Oregon State College in Monmouth, Oregon, and his role in Alaska Native education while working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dr. Jensen's work coincided with the last twenty-five years of Bureau of Indian Affairs...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and present and to Paul Farber and Jonathan Katz. Richard Ross, Jennifer Cornell, Stephen Hackel

  • Nine Native Mexicans families in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Cervantes, Willan A.
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    The Mixteco primarily reside in the Mexican State of Oaxaca in Southwestern Mexico. They have been arriving in larger numbers then ever before to this part of the North American continent in the last twenty years.Their experience is composed of different dynamics compared to those of their mainstream Mexican counterpart....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Structural Adjustment Programs………………………..…………..39 Structural Adjustment