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(University of Oregon, 2014-11)The Israel-Palestine Conflict is referred to in modern dialogues as perhaps "the world's most intractable conflict," engendering for contemporary Israelis and Palestinians alike a self- and national-perception that is ...
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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, 2011-06)The Reek Sunday Pilgrimage at Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, Ireland is a syncretic event that incorporates official Catholic religious narratives of Saint Patrick, folk narratives of the site's Celtic pagan significance, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-12)For immigrants and refugees, the concept of "home" is seldom a concrete definition, as the question of where "home" is - either in the country of origin or the new country, activates a tension in self-identity. For the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-03)This dissertation focuses on Latin American survivors of political violence and the staff members involved with one of the few torture treatment centers in the US. Relying primarily on life histories and semi-structured ...
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(University of Oregon, 2001-06)My dissertation, GROWING UP INDIAN: AN EMIC PERSPECTIVE describes the historical and contemporary experiences of the Coquille Indian Tribe and their close neighbors (as manifested in my oven family, in relation to their ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)Drawing upon theories from folkloristics, history, and audience studies, this thesis analyzes historical films, their reception, and the importance of history and film in everyday life. Using an interdisciplinary approach, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)Globalization has inaugurated many rapid changes in local communities throughout the world. The globalization of media, both electronic and print, has introduced new pressures for local communities to confront while also ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-12)Life history theory examines the allocation of resources among competing demands, including growth, immune function, and reproduction. Immune function can itself be divided into innate, cell mediated, and humoral responses. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)The scattered instances depicting material literature in Anglo-Saxon poetry should be regarded as a group. This phenomenon occurs in Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and The Husband's Message. Comparative examples of material ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-12)Despite the immense popular and critical response given to the Harry Potter narrative and phenomenon, little has been written about the music for the Harry Potter films. I establish that the aesthetic differences that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)This thesis examines casual storytelling among Mexican and Mexican American women in Oaxaca, Mexico and Eugene, Oregon. I focus on narratives involving powerful female protagonists and explore the ways in which storytelling ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-03)This dissertation research takes an ethnographic perspective on competing notions of "fairness" in the first vertically-integrated garment production chain in the world that is certified as fair trade. In sharp contrast ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-06)Travel and its accompanying literature have long been popular in modern societies. Early forms of the genre reflected attributes of the anthropological ethnography and were focused upon educating and informing their readers ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-03)This dissertation observes ways of speaking about environment and community in Kake, a Native Tlingit village on Kupreanof Island in Southeast Alaska. The study investigates the functions and values of legal/regulatory and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)This project is a critical and comparative investigation of Western and non-Western practices of body modification. Situated in the realm of feminist political theory, the project engages the literature and debates concerning ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-06)This thesis examines the generational gap between second generation of SovietAmericans and their Soviet-immigrant predecessors. I use the term 'Soviet' as an umbrella that encompasses not only ethnic Russian identity but ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Two markets located in Bamako, Mali, West Africa specialize in the commodification of wildlife, and in so doing contest western-centric notions of globalization. Founded in traditional medicine, the Marabagaw Yoro sells ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)Jambands were born in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco with the Grateful Dead, who dominated this musical genre until the mid-nineties. Jamband expert Dean Budnick coined the term shortly thereafter to describe ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)This thesis explores the effects of: 1) traditional values, 2) parental involvement, and 3) poverty on student performance. Instead of regarding tradition and poverty as obstacles, this paper argues that they can play a ...
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