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Environment, symbolism, and changing gender roles in Oregon's Santiam Canyon

Creator:

Gilden, Jennifer

Abstract:

In the early 1990s, a cutback in harvestable timber led to economic stress among the families and communities of Oregon's Santiam Canyon. This ethnographic study uses symbolic anthropology and cultural ecology to examine the changing relationships among the timber industry, timber communities, and gender roles. Timber-dependent economies have always struggled...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis