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  • Things not seen, and other stories

    Creator:
    Walsh, Amy M.
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    These six stories investigate characters who must begin to understand their own actions, which are often made in response to authority. In the lives of these characters, there are schemas which they believe they fit, certain rules placed on them by society that they each feel they must obey. It...
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    accentuated by the glare of the snow outside, which seeps through the curtains Sarah made. Two nights

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

    Creator:
    Smith-Nolan, Mary K.
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    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...
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    back to a Circle meeting and get the verdict. 13 At that meeting I was given a song called "Neo

  • Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane

    Creator:
    Duncan, James Bryan
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    In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...
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    Peretti's The Creation ofJazz, James Collier's Jazz: The American Theme Song, Leonard Feather's The Book

  • The magnitiseur and other stories

    Creator:
    van Belle, Christine E.
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    This thesis is a collection of three short stories and the beginnings of a novel. A similar thread is woven through all the stories: in the attempt to know spiritual truth, what it is to be a woman, and to know themselves, the various protagonists precariously oscillate between the seemingly...
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    madly juggled a crazy graduate schedule. Additionally, I would like to thank Kim Casebeer, Sarah

  • Development projects and questions of empowerment: a Salvadorean women's cooperative

    Creator:
    Hannigan-Luther, Kristen L.
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    Many development organizations now recognize the importance of culturally sensitive project design and implementation. Unfortunately most of these groups continue to disregard the significance of gender. This qualitative research examines a women's cooperative in rural El Salvador which formed in order to find a means of generating income and to...
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    encouraging me; to Steve Hannigan-Downs, for fielding my computer questions with grace; to Sarah Payne and

  • Slippery paths : connections and divergences between historic preservation and tourism in Micronesia

    Creator:
    Krause, Elizabeth L.
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    Micronesians are in the process of becoming independent nation-states after nearly a century of colonial rule, including four decades of U.S. administration as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Pressures to attain self-sufficiency have led many of these island nations to embrace tourism as an economic development strategy. Meanwhile,...
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