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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:: described as falling under the definitional heading of the New Age. The suppression and transformation of

Prehistoric patterns of economic and technological behavior reflected in the 2004 lithic assemblage of site J69E, Espiritu Santo Island, Baja California Sur

Creator:: Ferrell, Luanne R.
Abstract:: The La Ballena #3 site J69E is a shell midden located on Espiritu Santo Island in Baja California Sur. Archaeological excavations conducted in the summer of 2004 investigated a midden containing lithic and shell artifacts as well as faunal and human remains. Analysis of the debitage and formed lithic tool...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Patterns of Economic and Technological Behavior Reflected in the 2004 Lithic Assemblage of Site J69E

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

Creator:: Leaver, Jennifer Jensen
Abstract:: In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

Creator:: Van Laere, M. Susan
Abstract:: The Coast Reservation of Oregon was established under Executive Order of President Franklin Pierce in November, 1855, as a homeland for the southern Oregon tribes. It was an immense, isolated wilderness, parts of which had burned earlier in the century. There were some prairies where farming was possible, but because...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: archaeology fueled my own and opened new doors of inquily; Court Smith who always expected me to think

The benefits of diversified agricultural systems among Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize

Creator:: Hofbauer, Derek M.
Abstract:: Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize face socio-economic hardships, persisting environmental constraints, and an unfavorable political climate that has prevented land tenure stability on reservation lands. This thesis describes the agricultural practices of a group of Mopan farmers and examines farm-site diversification and its relationship to ecological knowledge, out-migration, agricultural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: harvesting of corn and when building a new home. Some Mopan farmers also donate a portion of their cacao

Public perceptions of wave energy on the Oregon coast

Creator:: Hunter, Daniel A.
Abstract:: Oregon’s coastal communities grew from the booming logging and fishing industries of the 19th century, but in recent decades have faced not only major declines in both timber and fish resources but also an increasing reliance on tourists and retirees and the resultant glut of seasonal service-sector jobs. As a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: resultant glut of seasonal service-sector jobs. As a burgeoning new industry, wave energy development

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

Creator:: Hedges, Kristin Naserian
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: layers were not only those of this new culture I was living in but also those of a terminal disease. My

The grassroots response to HIV/AIDS in Nyanza Province, Kenya : an analysis of the community-based approach for combating the multisectoral impact of an epidemic

Creator:: Johnson, Becky A.
Abstract:: From July to September, 2002 I spent ten weeks in Kenya conducting full-time research on the macroeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS and community action towards combating the epidemic in locations dominated by members of the Luo tribe in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Gathering data from both the Ministry of Health and non-governmental...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , andas a means of prevention of new infections; and providing education to the communities at large

Tastes of Sovereignty : An Ethnography of Sámi Food Movements in Arctic Sweden

Creator:: Green, Amanda Sophie
Abstract:: In this dissertation, I examine the process of building a Sámi food movement in northern Sweden. Using 15 months of ethnographic research that included observation of food events (n=100) and semi-structured interviews with food producers and activists (n=47), I describe how Sámi individuals are incorporating global food activism frameworks into...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Sverige: Det Nya Matlandet (Sweden: The New Food Nation), with the goal of creating more jobs and

Opposing worldviews : Cuicatec values of cultural and natural resources in a western paradigm

Creator:: Hearn, Kyle P.
Abstract:: Both conflicts and new identities result when indigenous' traditional values of landscape and resource management are superimposed with federal governments' management of archaeological and forest resources in federally designated protected areas. This thesis examines the relationship and discourse between two Cuicatec towns in Oaxaca, Mexico and three Mexican government agencies...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: development of new community subjectivities as well as the socioeconomic effects of future tourism

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

Prehistoric patterns of economic and technological behavior reflected in the 2004 lithic assemblage of site J69E, Espiritu Santo Island, Baja California Sur

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

The benefits of diversified agricultural systems among Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize

Public perceptions of wave energy on the Oregon coast

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

The grassroots response to HIV/AIDS in Nyanza Province, Kenya : an analysis of the community-based approach for combating the multisectoral impact of an epidemic

Tastes of Sovereignty : An Ethnography of Sámi Food Movements in Arctic Sweden

Opposing worldviews : Cuicatec values of cultural and natural resources in a western paradigm

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