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  • Estranged Eating

    Creator:
    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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    in Philosophy, Philosophy, and Nutrition and Food Management presented on November 27, 2006. Title

  • Women Farmers and Ranchers and Agricultural Knowledge: Gender. Experience, and Connection

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    Filan, Trina Robin
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    This research is based on in-depth interviews with 20 women farmers and ranchers from the state of Oregon. These women employ a variety of methods and subscribe to a number of divergent philosophies regarding agricultural practices. The intention of this study is to examine how women who are the primary...
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    Knowledge: Gender. Experience, and Connection. Susan M. Shaw This research is based on in-depth interviews

  • Perspectives from the Ranching Culture in the 1990's : Addressing Mythological and Environmental Concerns

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    Steward, Judith A.
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    Ideals of freedom, independence, and land ownership helped form and perpetuate the mythology of ranching in the United States. However, stereotypes emerged as a result of distortion from the media and the move away from the land. Social philosophies changed regarding the environment, land use, and the health and safety...
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    beef cattle on Hart Mountain is estimated at a mean of over a million and a half dollars in economic

  • The Va : Traditional Culture and Modernization of a Minority Nationality in China

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    Chiang, Hung-i and Jiang, Hongyi
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    The Va nationality, despite its small population compared to other nationalities in China, has preserved most of its traditions largely due to limits placed by historical circumstances and geographical isolation. To non-Chinese anthropologists, the Va people still remain unknown, as there is little or no information about them in English...
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    whole course of my study at OSU, and for his patience in directing my research and editing my thesis. I

  • Archival Anthropometry: An Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

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    Kirkpatrick, Kristin A.
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    Franz Boas collected anthropometric data on approximately 15,000 people from over 200 Native American tribal groups between 1888 and 1902. Twelve basic measurements were taken: standing height, shoulder height, height to digit III, arm span, sitting height, shoulder width, head length and width, face height and breadth, and nose height...
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    successful in cattle raising and logging, the Siletz were unable to fully enter these lucrative occupations

  • Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

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    Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
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    The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
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    settlements in the movement west and to take part in their organization and government. This research is

  • Cultural evolution and small-scale farming

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    Caday, Peter P.
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    Small-scale farmers are defined under United States Department of Agriculture guidelines as those whose gross farm sales are less than $40,000. They are typically contrasted with mid-scale farmers whose gross sales are less than $100,000, and with large-scale farmers whose sales are more than $100,000. Arguments from cultural and historical...
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    in assets whose patterns of labor, ownership, and management are clearly industrial (McGregor, 1982

  • Impact of Federal Policies on the Health of the Coquille Indians

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    McCanna, Michael
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    This paper examines the effects of federal policies on the health and health care system of the Coquille Indian Tribe. A historical framework is provided within which the nature and magnitude of these effects can be assessed. This paper provides a discussion of the effects of federal termination policy on...
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    Interdisciplinary Studies in Anthropology, Public Health, and Anthropology presented on July 11, 1995. Title

  • Rural Philomath Oregon 1850-1930 : geography and economy in oral history

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    Russell, John A.
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    Ranching and lumbering were two of the primary economic practices in a small rural study area south of Philomath Oregon (in Benton County), from first Euro-American settlement through 1930. Ranching was common but lumbering was restricted by geographical and market transportation problems until after 1900. Catalysts for change came in...
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    Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in History, Geography, and Anthropology presented on June 5

  • Peavy Arboretum : an archaeological and historical investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape

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    Hylton, Lindon B.
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    This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...
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    the census report and declared the closing of an era in history of the American West. In Turner's