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  • Reclaiming space for small scale agriculture in Lincoln County, Oregon

    Creator:
    Gossen, Kimberly A.
    Abstract:
    As recent interest has grown in the connections between how food is produced, distributed and consumed, and the overall health of food systems for people and the environment, a movement toward localizing food systems has emerged. In Lincoln County, Oregon, citizens, restaurateurs and university extension faculty, among others, have started...
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    Masters Thesis
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    …………………………………….….…….47 Ninety Years of Agriculture on the Western Edge (Circa 1910 - 2002

  • "Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

    Creator:
    Little, Peter C.
    Abstract:
    This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...
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    Dissertation
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    Appendix C………………………………………………………………….330 Appendix D………………………………………………………………….339 Appendix E

  • Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

    Creator:
    Burke, Erik P.
    Abstract:
    Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
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    Masters Thesis
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    SYSTEMS, 1845 TO 1940 36 SETTLEMENT PERIOD: 1845-1884 37 Livestock 39 Crops 40 DIVERSIFIED PERIOD: 1884

  • From teacups to lumber : archaeological site content and integrity of the Copeland Site (35BE90), Corvallis, Oregon

    Creator:
    Kanaby, Kara M.
    Abstract:
    This thesis describes the archaeological site content and integrity of the Copeland site (35BE90) in Corvallis, Oregon. The Copeland site is owned by the Benton County Historical Society and is the future home of the Benton County Historical Museum. In 2001, an Oregon State University archaeological field school was conducted...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    .............................................................................................................. 214 A.39: Summary typology personal items for test unit 10 by level .............................214

  • Nature and culture in two Pacific Northwest timber-dependent communities

    Creator:
    Six, Amanda
    Abstract:
    Timber-dependent, rural communities in the Pacific Northwest face dramatic economic, political, and cultural change. New philosophies of forest management, primarily formulated in urban communities, require new approaches to the use and extraction of resources. What are the roles of rural communities that wish to adapt and sustain themselves? Two rural...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ..................... 34 1:c State of Washington ...................................... 38 1:d Community of Selkirk

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

    Creator:
    Fang, Jin-cai
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    ...................................................................... I 1 6 10 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 33 39 42 TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Advocacy travel, creating social and ideological change : a comparison of travelers to Cuba and Chiapas

    Creator:
    Donckers, Jana L.
    Abstract:
    As a result of academic research into the effects of mass travel, an industry of alternative tourism has emerged. Application of this research has resulted in myriad forms of tourism, two of these being ecotourism and educational travel. Ecotourism represents a response to what is the destructive nature of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Appendix C: Chixpas Subject Questionnaire 157 Appendix D: Statistical Summary of Survey Response By

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

    Creator:
    Roy, Diana Milantia
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    for statistics tutorials, insight into the Boas data collection, and all-around advice; and to Alan

  • The Bachman Cave (10-OE0565) point typology, Owyhee County, southwestern Idaho

    Creator:
    Chavarria, Juan C.
    Abstract:
    In the past, archaeological investigations have recovered material culture that have often been stored as museum property without a focused analysis or written report of the results. This study focuses on one such assemblage ofchipped stone projectile points from the Bachman Cave locality of southwestern Idaho that has been stored...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ...................................................... 230 APPENDIX D Bachman Cave Projectile Point Unshouldered Category

  • What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

    Creator:
    Anderson, Jessica
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis