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Falling Inward: Ecstatic Dance & Recording the Ephemeral

Creator:: Sarreal, Jennifer T.
Abstract:: Little scholarship exists on the contemporary trance dance movement known as Ecstatic Dance. This thesis investigates the myriad of pathways dancers in the Ecstatic Dance communities of Western Oregon experience movement-induced altered states of consciousness. A secondary aim was to provide a more visually and ethnographically accessible dance annotation system...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

She is Somebody: The Care and Labor of Undocu/DACAmented Mothers

Creator:: Hurtado Moreno, Argenis
Abstract:: This thesis is an offering, request, testimonio, refusal, and compliance to the discipline of anthropology and higher education. In this thesis, I engage with different forms of storytelling to highlight the relationships of mixed-status families in the United States. To accomplish this, I draw on the experiences of my mother...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ethnographic methods, and reflexive anthropology (McClaurin, 2002; McClaurin, 2012; Buell, Burns, Chen

Decentering the Human in 12th Century Histories and Chronicles: Divine Nonhumans at the Center of the Itinerarium Cambriae and the Historia Anglorum

Creator:: Phelps, Nathan J.
Abstract:: This thesis primarily investigates nonhumans in the writings of 12th century historians. Where these writings may typically be seen as having little room for nonhuman agency, this thesis investigates how divinity, as an important part of medieval life, creates a space for nonhuman agency that is otherwise overlooked. In chapter...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: sun, moon, and planets as divine – in some ways a part of heaven itself. These celestial patterns

Chinese and International Engineers on the Belt and Road: Culture, Knowledge and Lives on a Renewable Energy Project

Creator:: Zhuo, Chen
Abstract:: Energy issues are becoming one of the most pressing topics in today's political and cultural landscape, particularly in the midst of the climate crisis. Globally, a variety of renewable energy projects are under development to meet energy demand without continuing to overburden the natural environment of our planet, with profound...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Chen Zhuo for the

Queer Materiality: Freaks, Ghosts, and Madness in Victorian Culture and the Novels of Charlotte Brontë

Creator:: Kennedy, Tallon R.
Abstract:: This thesis offers a theory of queer materiality as a way of understanding the interconnectedness of freaks, ghosts, and madness in Victorian culture, and how these elements coalesce in Victorian literature to destabilize the knowable materiality of normative social structures and forms of embodiment, leading to the production of queer...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Nipper, Sarah
Abstract:: This thesis examines alternative modes and forms of production in texts by Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf. Applying queer methodologies drawn from the work of Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lee Edelman, and Elizabeth Freeman, I show how Cather’s The Professor’s House and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse demonstrate and interrogate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: rhetorical maneuvers used in dehumanizing Native Americans: Wherever sun sunned and rain rained and snow

The Effect of Wear and Laundering on the Moisture Management Performance of Nomex Base Layer Garments

Creator:: Couvrette, Skye T.
Abstract:: Apparel has been described as a portable environment (Jintu & Tsang, 2008). This portable environment has the ability to facilitate human presence in a variety of situations, conditions, and circumstances that would otherwise be uncomfortable, harmful, or even fatal. Personal protective garments (PPGs) that provide thermal insulation from external heat...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Performance of Nomex Base Layer Garments. Abstract approved: Hsiou-Lien Chen Apparel has been described

Palynological Perspectives on Younger Dryas to Early Holocene Human Ecology at Paisley Caves, Oregon

Creator:: Saban, Chantel V.
Abstract:: The Younger Dryas climatic event is a global phenomenon associated with a 1,000 year return to glacial conditions during the late Pleistocene period between 12,800 and 11,500 cal BP. Because of its significant effects on paleoenvironmental conditions in some parts of the world, archaeologists commonly seek to assess whether the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A proposed farmstead plan for an irrigated area in central Oregon

Creator:: Yang, Edith Leong
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the road does not dictate their orientation. south or east orientation for the sun avoids the glare

Academic preparation of American business executives for foreign service

Creator:: Goodearl, Arthur William
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Falling Inward: Ecstatic Dance & Recording the Ephemeral

She is Somebody: The Care and Labor of Undocu/DACAmented Mothers

Decentering the Human in 12th Century Histories and Chronicles: Divine Nonhumans at the Center of the Itinerarium Cambriae and the Historia Anglorum

Chinese and International Engineers on the Belt and Road: Culture, Knowledge and Lives on a Renewable Energy Project

Queer Materiality: Freaks, Ghosts, and Madness in Victorian Culture and the Novels of Charlotte Brontë

Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

The Effect of Wear and Laundering on the Moisture Management Performance of Nomex Base Layer Garments

Palynological Perspectives on Younger Dryas to Early Holocene Human Ecology at Paisley Caves, Oregon

A proposed farmstead plan for an irrigated area in central Oregon

Academic preparation of American business executives for foreign service

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