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Pottery manufacture analysis : an experimental means for assessing technological continuity in the Altamont region

Creator:: Stoltz, Arleyn Winifred
Abstract:: Pottery manufacture analysis, an aspect of experimental archeology, is developed and used to compare and test through experimental reconstruction, data on pottery from the Altamont region (southern Alberta, Canada and northcentral Montana, U.S.). The analysis uses major variables of (1) manufacturing process and (2) product characteristics to formulate models of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: accepted. Blackfoot ethnographic accounts of pottery manufacture are shown to be usable and useful

The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : The Development of the Macabre in Late Medieval England

Creator:: Sandeno, Robin M.
Abstract:: Many authorities state that the development of macabre images were a result of the plague that first swept through western Europe 1347-1350. However, many aspects of the macabre were already in place prior to the plague. A more realistic explanation for the macabre is in the modification of religious belief,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . When Purgatory was accepted as doctrine in 1274, anxiety about the soul's punishment after death

An Osteo-archaeological Investigation of Pinniped Remains at Seal Rock, Oregon (35 LNC 14)

Creator:: Snyder, Sandra L.
Abstract:: Analysis of the pinniped remains from site 35 LNC 14 reveal the presence of four species: Eumetopias jubata (Stellar sea lion), Zalophus californianus (California sea lion), Callorhinus ursinus (Northern fur seal),'and Phoca vitulina (Harbor seal). Ratios based on minimum number of individuals calculations disclose a high incidence of mature Stellar...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: into the final pages of the manuscript and contained little more information than a list of species

Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion

Creator:: Tatom, Simon K.
Abstract:: My thesis, entitled "Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion," argues that J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion shares distinct similarities in style and content with Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, primarily in the lack of detail in the descriptions of characters and events, as each attempts to create a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , making literature an oral and communal act. As Alberto Manguel points out, "a manuscript of [Chaucer's

"Pushing for the Highline" : The Diffusion of Innovations in the Oregon Otter Trawl Fishery

Creator:: Stephenson, Garry Owen
Abstract:: Implementation of. the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 affords opportunities for fishery expansion and economic development in the Oregon otter trawl fishery. The changes stimulated by the Act should occur, according to social science theorists, by the diffusion of innovations from innovative fishermen to less innovative fishermen, with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: manuscript. To those who have been relegated to data, I would like to thank Dennis Degner, Bob Carpenter

Viria Woolf and "A Woman's Autobiography" : Rewriting Victorian Conventions of Autobioaphy

Creator:: Vanderpool, Aubrae M.
Abstract:: This thesis brings together gender and genre criticism to consider Virginia Woolf s memoir, "A Sketch of the Past," as a modern experiment in rewriting the traditions and conventions of Victorian autobiography. This thesis will demonstrate how Woolf specifically disrupts the conventions of linear representations of time and the assumed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: her husband, Leonard, for revision..." (9). The second manuscript is a seventy-seven page typescript

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

Creator:: Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: research guidance and a professional review of my manuscript. I would also like to thank Kerry Ahearn for

Brenda Ueland : Early Feminist and Writing Theorist

Creator:: Firmin, Mary Ann
Abstract:: Brenda Ueland is a writer whose most noted work is a book which explains her theory about how to write. She also published an autobiography and a co11ection of essays as well as achieving some notoriety as a magazine writer to the twenties and thirties. Ueland's writing theory is based...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: eventually bound as a manuscript. Born in America, Clara lived with her mother and brother in Minnesota

Voices of CALYX: Narratives of Feminist Publishing Activism, 1976-2006

Creator:: Steuben, Marieke L.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the nature of publishing as a political endeavor through a detailed investigation of the feminist publishing movement in the U.S. since the 1970s. Feminist publishers emerged from an activist context of feminist struggle, and they evolved within changing political and social climates, facing ideological and economic challenges...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Emergent Qualities of Diversity in Free and Open Source Software Communities: A Critical Review and Theoretical Discussion

Creator:: Kuechler, J. Victor
Abstract:: Free and open source software (FOSS) projects primarily rely on the efforts of volunteer contributors from around the world. For this reason, recruiting and retaining contributor is vital to the sustainability and growth of FOSS projects. This notion became the jumping-off point for this three-part investigation into the cultural structure...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: author of the first manuscript (Chapter 2), while Scott King conducted the original data analysis with

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Pottery manufacture analysis : an experimental means for assessing technological continuity in the Altamont region

The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : The Development of the Macabre in Late Medieval England

An Osteo-archaeological Investigation of Pinniped Remains at Seal Rock, Oregon (35 LNC 14)

Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion

"Pushing for the Highline" : The Diffusion of Innovations in the Oregon Otter Trawl Fishery

Viria Woolf and "A Woman's Autobiography" : Rewriting Victorian Conventions of Autobioaphy

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

Brenda Ueland : Early Feminist and Writing Theorist

Voices of CALYX: Narratives of Feminist Publishing Activism, 1976-2006

The Emergent Qualities of Diversity in Free and Open Source Software Communities: A Critical Review and Theoretical Discussion

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