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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...

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Masters Thesis

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evaluation of historic or cultural landscapes. However, a working definition for “culturally significant
Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

Creator:

Bruno, Mark P.

Abstract:

This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....

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Masters Thesis

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community sought to pioneer a model for human settlement based on ecological stewardship; participatory