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  • Progress in the Search for Early Sites in the Lower Salmon River Canyon, Idaho: A Case Study in Geoarchaeological Prospection

    Creator:
    Lancaster, JD L.
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    The search for and discovery of early archaeological sites is an inherently geoarchaeological problem. Archaeological sites of late Pleistocene-age are known to be located in the Intermountain West, however, the record of these early sites remains limited to only a few examples. In the lower Salmon River canyon (LSRC), the...
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    Progress in the Search for Early Sites in the Lower Salmon

  • Expressions of modernity in rural Pakistan : searching for emic perspectives

    Creator:
    Niazi, Amarah
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    This dissertation examines women's lives in a rapidly urbanizing rural community in Southern Pakistan to understand their responses to modernity in developing societies. Applying a mixed-methods approach, socio-demographic data is collected and contrasted with oral history and personal narratives to analyze social change through women's access to education and reproductive...
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    progress could only be contextualized in non-western, local cultural perspectives. Emerging trends in the

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

    Creator:
    Chavarria, Juan C.
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    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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    museum property without a focused analysis or written report of the results. This study focuses on one

  • To grow or to buy : food staples and cultural identity in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes

    Creator:
    Karnes, Daniel A.
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    In this era of free trade and globalization, food is traveling greater and greater distances to its consumers. This is causing small farms and small farmers all over the world to protest as their livelihood is being undercut by cheap agricultural commodities from outside their communities. In the Ecuadorian Andes,...
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    influencing the decisions made by households on what to eat, about how much control the community has over

  • Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

    Creator:
    Cassell, Christopher J.
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    Lower rates of computer adoption and usage in rural areas has been called a "digital divide." This work explores the current state of connectivity within a rural town of the Pacific Northwest with a quantitative and qualitative overview of computer usage and access within civic and activity clubs, ranging from...
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    dubs report less e- mail usage. This work explores the conditions that exacerbate the digital divide

  • Injera in the Kapitalocene: Understanding Women’s Perceptions of Change in Mekelle, Ethiopia

    Creator:
    Arefaine, Micknai
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    Women’s lives in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Mekele, Ethiopia are very organized, systematic, and sophisticated. The women in this study model, express, and reflect the values of community, trust, care, stability, and futurity through their perceptions and sentiments regarding social and political change. I document how these values...
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    farming projects. A 2012 report by the International Food Policy Research Institute projects that

  • Ukimwi ni homa (AIDS is a cold) : HIV vulnerability of Maasai women

    Creator:
    Hedges, Kristin Naserian
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    This thesis takes an in-depth look at specific behaviors that are putting Maasai women at risk for HIV/AIDS in Kenya. Methods used include in-depth interviews, focus group discussion, demographic data collection, and nutritional anthropometric measurements. The research took place June September 2004. Analysis reveals a strong connection between poverty and...
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    ) to "culture as an onion". I arrived in Narok a young, eager, idealistic volunteer, anxious to start

  • A settlement model at the Robert Newel Farmstead (35MA41), French Prairie, Oregon

    Creator:
    Manion, Mollie Jo
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    This thesis is based on the excavations of the Robert Newell farmstead (35MA41), excavated in 2002 and 2003 by the Oregon State University Department of Anthropology archaeological field school. Robert Newell lived at this farm from 1843- 1854. Major architectural features, including a brick hearth and postholes were discovered at...
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  • Hybrid healthscapes : mothers' health care and food practices in the Ecuadorian Andes

    Creator:
    Hammer, Michaela
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    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,...
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    )!describe! empowerment!as!giving!people!control!and!mastery!over!their!lives,!building!social! capital

  • Barbie Feathers: Writing Native Women

    Creator:
    Hedges, Jamie Lewis
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    Literature has often misrepresented Natives and women. I involved Native Women in researching and editing my novel to fairly and accurately represent them. in open-ended interviews they described their experiences of nature, enjoyment, and discrimination as well as their critiques of the novel itself. Descriptions were of discrimination as perceived...
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    . The idea of writing the novel was well under control. The idea of writing an ethnologically informed