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  • Estranged Eating

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    Lacy, Amber D.
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    The “fat-hunger paradox” is a relatively recent phenomenon in the United States in which people of low socioeconomic status are disproportionately overweight or obese, and yet frequently lack access to adequate food and nutrition. Research indicates additional disparities in the prevalence of overweight and obesity amongst most racial and ethnic...
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    work without the intellectual foundation he provided. Also, many thanks to Dr. Mary Cluskey, who

  • Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

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    Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
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    Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
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    , including: Mary Ann Davis, Julie Barnes, Tom Churchill, Mary Weber, Debi Soper, Robert Nesbit, Roderick

  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

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    Morales-Warming, Melissa
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    White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
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    as Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Virgin of Guadalupe is Mary, the mother of Jesus, who appeared to

  • The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

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    Boulware, Brooke L.
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    A cultural landscape analysis of two historic cemeteries in St. Paul, Oregon demonstrates that the residents of this early community were unknowingly using grave markers to express their worldview and the identities that they felt were most important. Because of the historical and cultural development of this community as the...
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    ..................................................................................................... 56 Figure 21 – Request for prayers, Mary Louisa Prevost (d. 1881), “May she rest in peace”; Jerome

  • A Classification of Stone Features and an Examination of Their Positional Attributes

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    Green, Phillip C. (Phillip Cody), 1950-
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    The analysis of prehistoric stone features has suffered for two separate but related reasons. The first is the lack of stringency in defining the terms attributed to these structures and, second, the perception of a lack of formal attributes exhibited by them. These two factors have made it impossible to...
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    I would like to express my gratitude to my mother, Florence Mary Ester Elliott Green for her

  • The Takelma and their Athapascan kin : an ethnographic synthesis of southwestern Oregon

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    Gray, Dennis J.
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    This study is a synthesis of the available ethnographic and relevant archaeological data pertaining to the Native American groups who formerly occupied the upper Rogue River drainage of southwestern Oregon. The information presented in this synthesis concerns the material, social and religious aspects of aboriginal life as practiced by the...
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  • Birthing Experience: Feminism, Symbolic Interaction, and (Re) Defining Birth

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    Roland-Schwartz, Michele L.
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    In this paper, my aim is to call attention to the meanings women attach to their birthing experiences using the symbolic interaction perspective in conjunction with a feminist lens. I argue that the obstetrical model of childbirth defines the course of the relationship between the laboring woman and attendant, limiting...
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    witch-craze, or what Mary Daly (1990) refers to as “the burning times,” targeted women accused of

  • The Enerience of Women's Higher Education at Oregon Agricultural College 1870-1916

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    Knewtson, Katrina Anne
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    This study addresses women's experiences in higher education at Oregon Agricultural College between 1870 and 1916. The experiences of these women illustrate how they were affected by society's beliefs and values, and further, how their education encouraged them to develop skills necessary to transform their role in society. Education has...
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    Education a-rt'CQP, Chair of Women Studies Program Dean of Graduat g-'t4 L. - iL hool I understand that

  • Beagle, Oregon, An Unknown Casualty of War: Camp White and the Destruction of a Farming Community During the Second World War

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    Shelnutt, Kay
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    This project examines the landscape of the farming community of Beagle, Oregon prior to and during the Second World War and the effect on it due to the construction of Camp White, a World War II training facility. The Beagle landscape is examined through the prism of current theory that...
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  • When Celilo was Celilo : an analysis of salmon use during the past 11,000 years in the Columbia Plateau

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    Thomison, Patrick
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    The presence and significance of salmon for prehistoric and aboriginal people of the Columbia Plateau is a matter of considerable debate among anthropologists, archaeologists and historians. Data from over 100 archaeological sites are scrutinized in the light of an example salmon fishery developed from ethnographic and archaeological information on aboriginal...
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