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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Our closest living relatives are two species in the genus Pan: bonobos and chimpanzees. Chimpanzees are further divided into four subspecies. While there are a number of phenotypic similarities between bonobos and chimpanzees, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Well-preserved plant remains recovered from archaeological deposits at the Paisley Five-Mile Point Caves and Little Steamboat Point-1 Rockshelter in southcentral Oregon provided a rare opportunity to study ancient plant ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)American wilderness is constructed as a space free from human contact. We know objectively this cannot be true: humans have relationships with landscapes and cultural systems of meaning and significance for the outdoors. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)This study embraces an emic view on the trajectory of the Songgukri culture in Korea. It examines how past people may have experienced the archaeological phenomenon currently understood as the Songgukri transition. That ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)A central concept in Evolutionary theory is the character trait. It provides a context in which to explore differences and similarities among taxa, both extant and extinct. It is expanded in scope in Evolutionary Developmental ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)Generalist and specialist species can be broadly distinguished by their ecological tendencies to utilize many available resources, or a selected few. Those organisms with more ecological versatility may have an advantage ...
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(The University of Oregon, 1973-03)Excavated in 1967, the Nightfire Island site yielded large amounts of artifactual, floral, and faunal data. This report presents the analysis of the bird and mammal segments of this large collection. While a fragmentary ...
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(University of Oregon, 2006-12)Many archaeological researchers that have conducted investigations in the Harney Valley of southeastern Oregon use the ethnographic description of the seasonal round of the Harney Valley Paiute reported by Beatrice Blyth ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Research into the origins of our own social behavior begins with understanding how environmental elements lead to complex social interaction. Social structure emerges from these interactions as a bottom-up process, whose ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)In what ways do long-time U.S. residents come to belong to families, local communities, and nations before and after deportation to Mexico? And how are they perceived not to belong? This dissertation explores the relationships ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)The objective of this dissertation is to address violence at the archaeological site of Casas Grandes (Paquimé) in northwest Chihuahua, Mexico. The reasons for the abandonment of Paquimé are uncertain. The prevailing theory ...
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(University of Oregon, 2000-06)
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This dissertation explores questions concerning contemporary socio-political formations on Aneityum—the southernmost island of the Republic of Vanuatu—as Aneityum firmly establishes itself on the tourism world stage. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This dissertation is an ethnographic study of how members of the Indo-Guyanese community traveled from Guyana to New York City, carrying with them distinct understandings of Hinduism informed by their multiple dislocations ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)The societies of Mahan and Baekje occupied Korea’s southwestern region from approximately first through seventh centuries CE, but their origins, geographical extent, and internal cultural variations have been poorly ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-09)This dissertation is a comparative, ethnographic study of Southern Sudanese and Bosnian refugees and social service organizations in Fargo, North Dakota. I examine how refugee resettlement staff, welfare workers, and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This dissertation takes an ethnographic perspective on competing global discourses and contested nationalisms in a postcolonial, multicultural nation. Using the Festival au Desert, in Mali, West Africa as a case study, I ...
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(University of Oregon, 1994-12)
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (NURFC) is a museum located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It anchors a riverfront development project where, beginning in the late 1990s and early 2000s, cities and towns in southern ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Community-based agriculture is not only concerned with the cultivation of food, but also with the cultivation of connection, care, and exchange. This dissertation is based on fieldwork with a non-profit organization that ...
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