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  • Tales from the trenches : the people, policies, and procedures of cultural resource management

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    Wilson, Michele L.
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    Since the late 1970s, archaeology has grown into an industry whose practitioners work in both public and private sectors. As an industry, modern archeology is commonly known as Cultural Resources Management, or CRM. CRM emerged from a surplus of employment opportunities made available to archeologists after the passing of National...
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    , modem archeology is commonly known as Cultural Resources Management, or CRM. CRM emerged from a

  • Investigating Differences between Rural and Non-rural Students

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    Sinnott, Christian B.
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    Rural students have lagged behind non-rural students in matriculation into higher education, as well as in completion of four-year degrees. The current studies sought to investigate academic readiness, academic performance, and psychological differences between rural and non-rural students at Oregon State University. Rural and non-rural students were compared during spring...
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    Kathryn A. Becker-Blease Rural students have lagged behind non-rural students in matriculation into

  • 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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    position which conforms to Marxism-Leninism. 7 A method of historical analysis developed by Karl Marx and

  • 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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  • The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

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    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goethe referred to as archetypal phenomena and the archetypal plant. The scope of exploration then broadens to...
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    Abstract Approved: Michael A. Osborne This thesis examines the morphology of Johann

  • Change in some aspects of Chinese core values, 1978-1988

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    Qi, Xiaoping
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    Great change has taken place in China during the past decade. As core values represent the most basic aspects of social life, change in some aspects of Chinese core values indicates that China is moving rapidly from being an agricultural society toward becoming a modern industrial society. China today can...
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    that China is moving rapidly from being an agricultural society toward becoming a modern industrial

  • Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

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    Bruno, Mark P.
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    This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
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    and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis. Data

  • Families on the Move : The Powledge Family of Meriwether County, Georgia, 1820-1900

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    Roberts, Nancy A.
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    The migrations of four generations of the Powledge family centering around Meriwether County, Georgia were described within the context of social and economic forces in the United States in 1820 to 1900. The family was representative of thousands of families that migrated westward. The migrations were found to correlate with...
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    Abs tract approved: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nancy A

  • Archeological Testing at the Willamette Mission Hospital Site

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    Bewall, Douglas A.
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    This study is an archeological testing report for the Willamette Mission Hospital Site. Landform analysis, photointerpretation and historical research were integrated with anthropological theory for this study. The site is an invaluable data base to further the study of human adaptability and cultural change. It should provide an excellent context...
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    Site AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Douglas A. Bewail for the degree of Master of Arts of

  • Nine Native Mexicans families in the Willamette Valley

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    Cervantes, Willan A.
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    The Mixteco primarily reside in the Mexican State of Oaxaca in Southwestern Mexico. They have been arriving in larger numbers then ever before to this part of the North American continent in the last twenty years.Their experience is composed of different dynamics compared to those of their mainstream Mexican counterpart....
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    THESIS OF Willan A. Cervantes for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in