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  • Pottery, Politics, and Trade Routes : Evaluating Independence in Late Classic Jalieza, Oaxaca

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    Walker, Sarah T.
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    The Oaxaca Valley, located in the state of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, was the site of the Zapotec civilization and its now famous capital, Monte Albán. This site, with political, military, and economic influence and control, helped to consolidate the three arms of the Oaxaca Valley, resulting in a state-level...
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    for the study of archaeology as a whole. Next I want to thank Dr. David Brauner, S. Marc Meyers, Dr

  • Comics in the classroom

    Creator:
    Mosher, Brian S.
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    As the necessity grows for undergraduate English teachers to incorporate various multimodal texts into their course material due to the changing landscape of what is considered English studies, comics can be an increasingly viable source for such texts. This thesis introduces several formal qualities of comics available for teachers to...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Brian S. Mosher for the degree of Master of Arts in English on May 28, 2013

  • Archaeological Textile Fragments Present an Opportunity In the Study of Social and Landscape Interactions

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    Lopez, Kirsten M.
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    Textiles (including basketry, cordage, woven, knotted, or plaited products) make up a considerable portion of the perishable archaeological record in dry caves of the northern Great Basin region, much of which is created from plants and plant fibers. The archaeological study of precontact textiles greatly informs our understanding of how...
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    Wilson, Patrick Cromwell, and Zade Cavett. To those whose work, collaboration and encouragement fueled

  • Chasing Tails: Stories for Refining Relationships Between Wolves & Humans

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    Beggen, Kristina
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    As wolves return to their historic habitats both in Oregon and across the globe, emotions are running high between people either gladdened or disturbed by their homecoming. Prior to colonization, wolves occupied the entire Pacific Northwest alongside Indigenous peoples. However, European settlements that ultimately coalesced to form the state of...
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    Tsing, Shawn Wilson, and the anthropologist Michael Jackson. I find it vital for this research to be

  • Of mice and bunnies : Walt Disney, Hugh Hefner, and the age of consensus

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    Allen-Spencer, Patricia C.
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    Post World War II victory culture and its fallout-the consensus ideology-led to the creation of a middle class willing to conform to a prescribed set of ideals, safely removed from all danger, and enjoying the material benefits of a growing middle-class income bracket. Walt Disney and Hugh Hefner, two seemingly...
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    difficult to establish a clear picture of Walt's childhood. Unsanctioned biographer Marc Eliot explains in

  • The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

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    Koroloff, Rachel
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    Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...
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    , see: Francesca Wilson, Muscovy: Russia Through Foreign Eyes, 1553 – 1900 (New York: Praeger, 1970

  • Fishing Guides in the Anthropocene

    Creator:
    Wind, Thad A.
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    How do fishing guides of the Cascade and Coast Range rivers negotiate the conflicting tensions between their client’s desire to experience the wild and the extractive nature based tourism of their role as fishing guides? How do they position their services relative to the environment and an imagined landscape that...
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  • Making & finding childhoods : forest schooling in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Bustamante, Stephanie
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    East School is a private, forest schooling program in the Pacific Northwest. This ethnography focuses on student engagement with teacher led efforts to "educate" them within an emergent social system depending on new subjectivities. I ground this premise in a reflexive analytical framework, unpacking an implicit ethnotheory of perception as...
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  • Beyond Borders: Understanding the Interplay of Factors in Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border

    Creator:
    De La Rosa, Sarah
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    This thesis explores the intricate issues surrounding migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, offering diverse perspectives and insights into its drivers, consequences, and ethical dimensions. Through three comprehensive papers, this research offers a nuanced analysis of the complex dynamics influencing the migration crisis. The first examines the historical and theoretical factors...
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    working paper which has since bloomed into the second paper of this thesis. • David Wrathall and Brian

  • Aliens and academics : how cultural representations of alien abduction support an entrenched consensus reality

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    Bryan, Frederick Clark
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    The alien abduction phenomenon has garnered considerable media attention in the last fifteen years, including many representations in books, film, and television. An overview of significant abduction literature is presented. Contrasts and comparisons are noted between popular written accounts and both the visual representations they engender and reports outside the...
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