Browsing by Subject "Anthropology, Cultural."
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Acts of empathic imagination: Contemporary Native American artists and writers as healers.
(2001)This dissertation uses the model of Native American "Morning Prayers" to establish four geographic and cultural regions within the United States as the means to discuss the relationship between health and contemporary ... -
Anthropological Literacy: Toward a Holistic Understanding of the Varieties of Human Experience through Oklahoma Social Studies Education
(2021-12-17)In conversations about education in Oklahoma, there are differing views on how to handle equipping students to navigate a diverse world. Social studies education research has long sought new approaches to prepare students ... -
The anthropology of law :
(1983)Much of the anthropological work on Middle American communities has generally typified local (community) informal law as "customary". The emphasis on only one type of dispute resolution agency obfuscates definitive conclusions ... -
Archaeology of eastern Sonora, Mexico: A reconsideration of Rio Sonora/Serrana social organization through comparative ceramic analysis
(2021-05-14)This study will provide an additional perspective on the socio-political organization of the late precolonial and protocolonial period (AD 1250 to ~1550) in the Rio Sonora/Serrana region through an analysis of textured ... -
Asian and Hispanic educational differences and their impact on spatial and socio-economic inequity in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
(2000)During my 15 years as an English-as-a-second-language teacher in the Oklahoma City Public Schools I observed that Asian and Hispanic students had different degrees of academic success. Asians were better students than ... -
Becoming Two-Spirit: Difference and desire in Indian country.
(The University of Oklahoma., 2002)Within the last ten years, the term Two-Spirit has grown in popularity as a way for gay and lesbian Native Americans to identify with their Native ancestry and their sexual orientation. Also, Two-Spirit is a rallying point ... -
"Betting" on vanilla: Rural producers and development in Papantla, Veracruz, Mexico.
(2007)This dissertation focuses on small-scale vanilla producers in the Mexican state of Veracruz, and their experience with development projects aimed at reviving the cultivation of the crop after decades of decline. It begins ... -
Between the leaves: cannabis policy, medicalization, and user communities in the Sooner State
(2023-12-15)This anthropological study uses an ethnographic approach to contextualize and explore the policy behind Oklahoma’s expansive medical cannabis industry and the lived experiences of user communities in the state. First, I ... -
Black business students' post-baccalaureate employment expectations: What are they and from where do they originate?
(1998)The purpose of this study was to generate grounded theory concerning post-baccalaureate employment expectations of Black college students enrolled in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs.) The objective has ... -
Cameroonian teachers' perceptions of culture, education, and mathematics.
(2005)This study is a critical ethnography of Cameroonian secondary school teachers, with the purpose of generating understandings of Cameroonian teachers' perceptions of and meanings for culture, education, and mathematics and ... -
Ceremony in miniature: Kiowa oral storytelling and narrative event.
(2001)Everytime Kiowas tell stories they invoke a cultural and tribal framework their audience(s) can relate to in a meaningful way. Like any cultural group, Kiowas recontextualize ideas and themes from earlier contexts that ... -
Cherokee and Dakota language letters: Illustrations of nineteenth century discourse.
(1999)This dissertation concerns nineteenth century Cherokee and Dakota discourse, exemplified by the individual writers of native language letters. The first chapter outlines the goals, the data, and the methods of this ... -
Coming to Kashi: Ethnography of an American Ashram.
(1997)Coming to Kashi: Ethnography of an American Ashram focuses on the growth and history of a "new religious movement, " its principal commune, Kashi Ashram, in Sebastian, Florida, and on the stories of its residents and the ... -
COMMUNICABILITY, WELLNESS, AND RURAL HEALTH ECONOMICS: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTER IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA
(2014-05-09)Through an analysis of chronotopic discourses, or discourses that provide meaning in connection to time and space, focused on the (re)definition of rurality in relation to health, this dissertation examines the overall ... -
Communication ecologies and contemporary African American families: A study of Black family death rituals.
(2001)African American families are shown to include an extended group as family during the death ritual process, with a primary relationship among the family, church and funeral directors. -
Community, poverty, power: The politics of tribal self-determination, 1960--1968.
(2003)"Community, Poverty, Power" underscores the need for scholars to transcend conventional definitions of Indian history, combine micro and macro scales of analysis, and blend social and political perspectives. In addition ... -
CONCURSO FEVER: THE EPIDEMIC SWEEPING BRAZIL
(2016)This dissertation investigates public sector work and the desire for concursos in northeastern Brazil. It considers the meaning of civil service to “new” middle class Brazilians and seeks to understand how standardized ... -
Cross-cultural adaptation and host environment: A study of international students in Japan.
(1998)The study was designed based on Kim's comprehensive theory, which conceptualizes intercultural adaptation in terms of interaction/communication between adapting individuals and surrounding host environment.