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  • Empowerment or a 'citizenship project'? : microcredit with education in Cuzco, Peru

    Creator:
    Kearney, Emily Q.
    Abstract:
    Microfinance, or the technique of lending small amounts of money to the world's poor for productive activities, has emerged as a dominant approach to poverty alleviation among international development organizations. However, consensus does not yet exist as to the best mechanism for delivery of loans. While most organizations simply offer...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Education in Cuzco, Peru. Abstract approved

  • Rosa Gonzalez Gomez : a Mexican woman's story

    Creator:
    Browning, Richard L.
    Abstract:
    Using an oral history method, the author has recorded the life history of Rosa González Gómez, a Mexican woman who spends part of each year in the United States and part in Mexico. Comparing the story of Rosa's life, as told in her own words, with literature in the social...
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    Masters Thesis
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    social sciences and the author's own experiences in Latin America, the author proposes that current

  • An analysis of social relationships at a development site in Kenya

    Creator:
    Burke, Deborah A.
    Abstract:
    Both development and post-structuralist anthropologists have critiqued development. Development anthropologists are concerned that development does not take adequate account of the social and cultural factors of developing nations, while post structuralists question the ontology of development and assert that domination over developing nations is inherent in the concept of development....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on March 16. 1999. Title: An Analysis of Social

  • A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

    Creator:
    Montañez, Morgan
    Abstract:
    The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low-income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in the act of being poor in America. Rather than participating solely in government safety nets, these people reject “hand-outs” in favor of exchanging...
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    -income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in