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  • Challenges to re-embedding food systems : tracing the decline and revival of a farmers’ market on the edge

    Creator:
    Murray, Mary K.
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    A number of researchers view farmers’ markets as an appropriate vehicle for re-embedding food markets into communities (O’Hara & Stagl, 2001, Feenstra, 2002, Lyson, 2005). Amidst astounding growth in the number of farmers’ markets in the United States in recent decades, many markets struggle and fail. Recent research suggests that...
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    Systems: Tracing the Decline and Revival of a Farmers’ Market on the Edge by Mary K. Murray

  • Gods and knickknacks : the American adoption of Asian religious items

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    Jameson, Tamsyn L.
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    This thesis contains the cultural biography of Buddhist and Hindu items in a small college town in the United States. It explores different factors that have led to the availability of these items here, what attracts Americans to them, and the meanings they give these items. Semi-structured interviews were conducted...
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    Buddhist and Hindu items in a small college town in the United States. It explores different factors

  • Toxic politics at 64N, 171W : addressing military contaminants on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

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    Henifin, Kai A.
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    St. Lawrence Island, Alaska is home to two Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) under remediation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1985. After more than two decades the local residents continue to be concerned about inadequate site characterization and cleanup. During the summer of 2005, I collected ethnographic...
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    Kai A. Henifin for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on March 9, 2007

  • "I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

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    Koch, Elizabeth C.
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    Over two million people experience homelessness in the United States, but homeless people are often marginalized by invisibility and stigmas surrounding poverty within their local communities. This research seeks to amplify the voices of Corvallis area homeless women as a means to understand their everyday lived experiences. Six women residing...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Mehra A. Shirazi Over two million people experience homelessness in the United States

  • The influence on Manchu women of changes in social institutions and the sinification of Manchu Society

    Creator:
    Fang, Jin-cai
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    Gender relations as well as the social situation of Manchu women have long been ignored in studies of the cultural evolution of the Manchu. By setting the discussion of Manchu women in the context of cultural adaptation, this study reintroduces gender and women's problems into the research on the Manchu...
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    A. Young Gender relations as well as the social situation of Manchu women have long been ignored

  • Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

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    Boltseridge, Nathan H.
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    In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...
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    1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled

  • Rethinking the dualism : Don DeLillo's White Noise and the ecocritical possibilities of the nature/culture mix

    Creator:
    Bowman, Natalie A.
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    Rethinking the Dualism: Don DeLillo's White Noise and the Ecocritical Possibilities of the Nature/Culture Mix questions current applications of ecocriticism and offers that these applications are inadequate in dealing with the perceived nature/culture dualism. This thesis suggests that ecocritics need to stop thinking in dualistic terms, but instead must consider...
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    desires" in the citizens of the seemingly cut-off town (85). However, according to Murray, it is still "a

  • International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

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    Visconti, Lauren A.
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    Projected to reach one million people next year, international students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the existing study abroad paradigm is the first step to more accurately understand the lived experience of an educational migrant. Discovering the perceptions of what value an...
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    students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the

  • Public perceptions of wave energy on the Oregon coast

    Creator:
    Hunter, Daniel A.
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    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...
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    resultant glut of seasonal service-sector jobs. As a burgeoning new industry, wave energy development

  • Reclaiming space for small scale agriculture in Lincoln County, Oregon

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    Gossen, Kimberly A.
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    As recent interest has grown in the connections between how food is produced, distributed and consumed, and the overall health of food systems for people and the environment, a movement toward localizing food systems has emerged. In Lincoln County, Oregon, citizens, restaurateurs and university extension faculty, among others, have started...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kimberly A. Gossen for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology