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Using stable-isotope analysis to obtain dietary profiles from old hair

Creator:: Roy, Diana Milantia
Abstract:: Stable isotope analysis of human tissue can provide information about diet independent of artifactual remains. Food is broken down and used in the synthesis of body tissue, so the isotopic composition of hair keratin reflects the isotopic composition of foods consumed. Therefore, the analysis of hair can provide a window...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Diana Milantia Roy for the degree

Pregnancy, class and biomedical power : factors influencing the prenatal care experiences of low-income women in an Oregon community

Creator:: Pearce, Laurie Kathleen
Abstract:: Low-income women in an Oregon city of approximately 35,000 inhabitants have limited access to prenatal care services during their pregnancies. The purpose of this study was to uncover the impacts of several factors on the experiences of twenty-seven health department clients with public health department prenatal care practitioners and with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: would let Carol and Diana,5 the prenatal care practitioners, know that I had arrived. Diana and Carol

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

Creator:: Smith-Nolan, Mary K.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of the notion that there is a Spirit world and that prayer makes a difference (RCC Interview: Diana

Development and Trial of a Usability Testing Protocol for Biomass Cookstoves : An Interdisciplinary Approach

Creator:: Moses, Nicholas D.
Abstract:: Improved cookstoves have been designed and disseminated for several decades in an effort to address the human health and environmental issues caused by the inefficient, traditional biomass cooking and heating methods used by 40% of the world’s people. Engineers and designers working on these improved stoves have tended to focus...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

¿Que es rico? In Support of the ¡Que Rico Es! 250mil Familias Campaña : Practice, Ideology, Rica, Sana, y De Nuestra Tierra

Creator:: Fisher, Nicholas A.
Abstract:: What does comida rica mean? In this thesis, I explore the meanings of comida rica, sana, and de nuestra tierra through the discourses, practices, and kitchen geographies in six urban, highland households in the Ecuadorean Andes. This research, as part of a larger investigation carried out by a team of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: credit to Silvia Castillo, used with her permission. Research Questions: My study is a part of a

Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

Creator:: McAleer, Carolyn Patricia
Abstract:: This thesis examines archaeological material in order to explore gender and ethnicity issues concerning fur trade era families from a settlement in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Ethnohistorical information consisting of traders journals and travelers observations, as well as documentation from the Hudson's Bay Company, Catholic church records, and genealogical information...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Spencer Wood (1987), Lynne Clark (1987), and Marsha and Roger Kelly (1980). More recently Diana Dizerega

An analysis of social relationships at a development site in Kenya

Creator:: Burke, Deborah A.
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Hybrid healthscapes : mothers' health care and food practices in the Ecuadorian Andes

Creator:: Hammer, Michaela
Abstract:: After decades of expert-based modernization efforts that have had profound negative impacts on human and environmental health, Ecuador is currently pursuing a rights-based, participatory development paradigm known as sumak kawsay or "the good life". Despite its promises of inclusion and interculturality, this approach continues to rely on highly trained specialists,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: !Organica!de!Salud,!2006;!Flores!and!Castillo! 2012).! In!the!health!system,!these!development!approaches

Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

Creator:: D'Alessandro, Erica
Abstract:: Limited research has analyzed how the values espoused by Western alternative food systems, such as taste and territoriality, are adopted and refashioned in post-socialist societies. Muscovites now echo the global quality turn that reconnects consumers to their food sources. This research qualitatively explores the perspectives of the cosmopolitan consumers of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

Creator:: Bruno, Mark P.
Abstract:: This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Using stable-isotope analysis to obtain dietary profiles from old hair

Pregnancy, class and biomedical power : factors influencing the prenatal care experiences of low-income women in an Oregon community

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

Development and Trial of a Usability Testing Protocol for Biomass Cookstoves : An Interdisciplinary Approach

¿Que es rico? In Support of the ¡Que Rico Es! 250mil Familias Campaña : Practice, Ideology, Rica, Sana, y De Nuestra Tierra

Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

An analysis of social relationships at a development site in Kenya

Hybrid healthscapes : mothers' health care and food practices in the Ecuadorian Andes

Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

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