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Latinx Adolescent Sexual Health Education: Informing a Culturally Centered and Inclusive Program

Creator:: Cervantes, Beathriz
Abstract:: Latinx youth in the US experience stark inequities in sexual and reproductive health, including rates of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. One promising way to reduce these inequities is to provide culturally centered, comprehensive sexual health education. However, such curricula are rarely offered to Latinx youth, in part because...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

Creator:: Gann, Tamara S.
Abstract:: This thesis is an IRB-exempt oral history focused on the non-profit Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) in Corvallis, Oregon. The CMLC, formerly on 9th Street, was known to many community members as the Yellow House. The Yellow House was a dedicated community-based space where people of all cultures could come...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Socio-ecological vulnerability in a Tibetan village on the Lancang River, China

Creator:: Galipeau, Brendan A.
Abstract:: This ethnographic research examines socioeconomic vulnerabilities to resettlement from a large hydropower dam and agricultural commodification in a Tibetan village in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. After providing an initial background on the dynamics of the research region and hydrodevelopment on its rivers, the research framework of examining vulnerability through a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Football nights at Ken and Ellen’s were also a great time. Last but certainly not least I must thank

Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

Creator:: Purdy, Sarah E.
Abstract:: For centuries humans have been searching for precious metals. The search for gold has greatly changed the landscape of the American West, beginning in the 1850s and continuing today. Various gold rushes around the country created mining colonies in remote areas, thereby connecting the frontier with the rest of America...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Culture built upon the land : a predictive model of nineteenth-century Canadien/Métis farmsteads.

Creator:: Hebert, James Michael
Abstract:: The objective of this thesis is to provide a predictive model for the archaeological investigation of the first farmsteads in the Pacific Northwest, established in the early- and mid-nineteenth century by Canadien and Métis families retiring from their service in the fur trade. Past studies of this population have either...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: settlement in the Saint-Lawrence River Valley. I have used both English- and French-language primary and

Relationships, communication, and power in Willamette Valley watershed councils : toward building resilient collaborative pathways

Creator:: Myhre, Andrea L.
Abstract:: The purpose of this research is to investigate how stakeholders involved in collaborative watershed groups in Oregon work with each other to form ideas and take action. Most collaboration efforts include encouraging a high level of trust with a great value placed on relationships and partners, being open and flexible,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , French and Raven 1960). Information flow that travels in one direction only indicates the presence of a

Modern music and cultural identity in Corsica

Creator:: Baldridge, Christopher M.
Abstract:: Music is one of the most important aspects of cultural identity in Corsica. Rooted in ancient history and revitalized in the revolutionary political climate of the 1960s and 70s, its popular choral form--the paghjella--has come to define modern music upon the island. Music, like language, has the ability to communicate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: It is my honor to first thank Annette and Ken and the extended family of Poggio di Venaco, just as

Thinness in Asia : eating disorders in Singapore as seen through anthropological eyes

Creator:: Isono, Maho
Abstract:: There has been a growing interest in eating disorders among Singaporean medical professionals since the 1990s, and the Singaporean public is also starting to become aware of the risks of these conditions. This ethnographic research on eating disorders in Singapore, conducted in 2001, however, found that the majority of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thesis. Special thanks go to Mavis and Ken Tutan, who, as my surrogate American parents, gave me

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , organic farming and gardening, agrarianism, French intensive gardening, permaculture, wild farming, the

Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Creator:: Takahashi, Tokiko
Abstract:: Based on the author's ethnographic research at the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan, this thesis explains a cultural process of the local people's synthesis of the values they place on nature and their everyday behavior in a modern industrial world. Explicated by ethnographic narrative, this study focuses on a revitalization...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Latinx Adolescent Sexual Health Education: Informing a Culturally Centered and Inclusive Program

The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

Socio-ecological vulnerability in a Tibetan village on the Lancang River, China

Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

Culture built upon the land : a predictive model of nineteenth-century Canadien/Métis farmsteads.

Relationships, communication, and power in Willamette Valley watershed councils : toward building resilient collaborative pathways

Modern music and cultural identity in Corsica

Thinness in Asia : eating disorders in Singapore as seen through anthropological eyes

Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

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