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A GIS investigation of indigenous intensification of native food plants : humans as environmental variable in maxent habitat suitability modeling of Camassia in Oregon

Creator:: Elliott, Braden T.
Abstract:: This thesis merges the fields of Ecology and Anthropology by applying Habitat Suitability Modeling to the relationship between people and plants in the Pacific Northwest. In it, I create and optimize two Maxent habitat suitability models for camas (Camassia spp.) in Oregon. The first model describes the physical environment of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and Turner 2005:5] Manifest Destiny was employed as a broad justification for arguments that the

Japanese animation in America and its fans

Creator:: Davis, Jesse Christian
Abstract:: This research covers Japanese animation and its popularity in the United States. It focuses on hardcore fans for whom this animation has become part of their lives. Using interviews of self-identified anime fans, this research explores how anime fandom has become a part of American life despite originating in a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Defining the gap : a case study of the on campus residential options at Oregon State University

Creator:: Nelson, Rachel C.
Abstract:: The decision to attend a university creates many important decisions for a young adult, with one of the most important being the choice of where to live while they make the transition into independent adults. Many choose to live on campus during this critical time. The differences that exist, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: non status, and of unanchored identity” (Turner, as quoted by Schouten 1991:49). Students entering

Positioning Recreational and Medical Cannabis Cultivation within the American Agricultural Landscape: An analysis of cannabis cultivator occupational identities and practices in Colorado and Oregon

Creator:: Nelsen, Berit
Abstract:: Using data collected from cannabis growers and traditional farmers, and the “Good Farmer” approach, this research provides a comparative analysis of the occupational identities of cannabis cultivators and traditional farmers in Colorado and Oregon. Though both growers and farmers within the study suggested that cannabis cultivation differed from conventional agriculture,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

Creator:: Burk, Rene F.
Abstract:: Cultivated plants are often living artifacts that can aid in evaluation of historic or cultural landscapes. However, a working definition for “culturally significant plant” is currently lacking in the guidance literature for the cultural resource management practitioners. Based on a review of the literature on cultivated plants as indicators of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: significance of plants (Turner, 1988; Hunn, 1982; Stoffel, 1990; Sujarwo, 2015, Berlin et al. 1969; Lee, 1979

Fishing Guides in the Anthropocene

Creator:: Wind, Thad A.
Abstract:: How do fishing guides of the Cascade and Coast Range rivers negotiate the conflicting tensions between their client’s desire to experience the wild and the extractive nature based tourism of their role as fishing guides? How do they position their services relative to the environment and an imagined landscape that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: culture is historically situated” (Susen and Turner 2011:196). The historical memory, the historical

Self-identity and self-esteem of recent female Mexican migrants in an even start program

Creator:: Polit, Gabriela
Abstract:: The purpose of the study is to explore the life experiences, identities, and self-esteem of a group of Mexican women who attend Even Start, a family literacy program. The study also focuses on the effect that the program has on the women's self-identities. I chose qualitative research considering I was...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The ideas of William James as well as those of the symbolic interactionists --Charles Cooley, James

“We All Live Downriver”: Environmental Justice and Community Resistance to the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove Export Terminal in Southern Oregon

Creator:: Halleran, Patricia C.
Abstract:: Native America tribes and community members throughout Oregon have asserted a strong opposition to the fossil fuel industry’s attempt to expand railways, build pipelines, and construct refineries, holding facilities, and export terminals. Despite the limited presence of fossil fuel infrastructure in the state, however, the industry is actively pursuing permits...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: James Cook who traded with local tribes off the coast in 1778 (Oregon Council for the Humanities 1991

What are the environmental, economic, and social barriers to achieving agricultural sustainability in the Ten Rivers region of western Oregon?

Creator:: Stanton, Michael
Abstract:: This ethnographic study examined some of the ways that global markets and the infrastructure of agribusiness affect local smallholder farmers in the Ten Rivers region who are transitioning toward more sustainable and traditional agricultural methods. The purpose of this research was to discover what barriers smallholder farmers face in developing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Turner (2003) addresses problems of measuring land degradation through overgrazing of cattle that are

"I'm a Mom too!" - Stigma, Support & Contested Identities among Adolescent Mothers in the United States

Creator:: Everson, Courtney L.
Abstract:: This dissertation aims to provide a comprehensive portrayal of doula care in the lives of pregnant and parenting adolescent mothers. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationships between psychosocial stress, social support, institutionalized constraints, and their impacts on health and well-being among adolescent mothers in the Northwestern...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: as has been identified in the United States (Cherry, Dillon, and Rugh 2001; James and Rashid 2013

ScholarsArchive@OSU

A GIS investigation of indigenous intensification of native food plants : humans as environmental variable in maxent habitat suitability modeling of Camassia in Oregon

Japanese animation in America and its fans

Defining the gap : a case study of the on campus residential options at Oregon State University

Positioning Recreational and Medical Cannabis Cultivation within the American Agricultural Landscape: An analysis of cannabis cultivator occupational identities and practices in Colorado and Oregon

An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

Fishing Guides in the Anthropocene

Self-identity and self-esteem of recent female Mexican migrants in an even start program

“We All Live Downriver”: Environmental Justice and Community Resistance to the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove Export Terminal in Southern Oregon

What are the environmental, economic, and social barriers to achieving agricultural sustainability in the Ten Rivers region of western Oregon?

"I'm a Mom too!" - Stigma, Support & Contested Identities among Adolescent Mothers in the United States

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