Browsing OU - Theses by Author "Klein, Misha"
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Crafting Culture: Tapping into Identity and Place through the Craft Beer Movement in Oklahoma
Ybarra, Lezlie (2019-05-10)In this anthropological study, I take an ethnographic approach to analyzing the constructions of identity in Oklahoma through the craft beer movement. I use the concept of a “sense of place,” where I take a look into the ... -
Crossing to Care: Movement and Flexibility in Mexican Massage Healing
Castaneda, Krystalynn (2020)Transnationalism and border studies have often rightly focused on the movement of people, materials, and ideas across national lines as well as issues of migration such as along the U.S.-Mexico border. This thesis examines ... -
Discourses of Division: An Ethnography of the Oklahoma Proud Boys
Chandler, Zachary (2022-05-13)As a self-described group of "Western chauvinists," the Proud Boys have become lodged within the national consciousness because of their participation in historical and contemporary discourses concerned with fascism, ... -
FROM PHENOMENOLOGY OF LANGUAGE TO A THEORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL PRAXIS: PERCEPTION, IDEOLOGY, AND MEANING IN MULTIMODAL LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE
Hov, Loren (2016-05)Linguistics has prioritized the auditory mode of transmission in language at the expense of written forms and their relevance to the social construction of meaning and identity. Due to the privilege of spoken language as ... -
In Search of the Emerald City: Life Next to a Kansas Superfund Site
Thaemert, Jaycie (2021-05-14)This thesis is an ethnographic investigation of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant and the surrounding town of De Soto, Kansas. I argue that the ammunition plant has produced not only embodied impacts in the form of ... -
Language Ideologies and Practices among University Learners of Native American Languages
Wilson, Michael (2016-05-14)This thesis examines language ideologies among university learners of Native American languages. Given that attitudes and beliefs toward these languages can have a direct impact on the learning process, recognizing ideologies ... -
MAKING SENSE OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY: VIOLENCE, AGENCY, AND INTERSECTIONALITY IN POLICY, PAST AND PRESENT
Harden, Meagan (2020-05)Since President Trump took office in 2017, he has implemented dozens of restrictive immigration laws at the expense of women and people of color. The rapid barrage of policies has confounded international and domestic ... -
Native Subjectivity, Reproduction, and the Politics of Ethnography
Davis, Arian (2017)Birth and child-rearing have long figured as premiere sites for social scientific research. As Rapp & Ginsburg (1995) argue, anthropological inquiry into reproduction provides a unique opening for the study of socio-political ... -
Pop-folk muzika: the paradoxical coexistence of ethnonationalism, globalization, and queerness in Serbian popular music
Green, Elizabeth (2020-12-20)This document investigates the prevalence of ethno-nationalist ideology in the Balkan neo-folk music genres Pop-folk and its predecessor, Turbo-folk, under influences of globalization and queer culture. Turbo-Folk and ... -
Red Dirt Resilience: Enduring Narratives of Oklahoma Environmental Activism
Stephenson, Moriah (2016-05-13)This thesis explores the relationship between dominant narratives of Oklahoma identity and counter-narratives of Oklahoma identity. I consider how the dominant narrative of Oklahoma identity is constructed in relationship ... -
The Water that Sustains Us: Indigenous Resistances to Defend the Environment in Oklahoma
Leslie, Carrie McLachlin (2019-05-10)My research focuses on Indigenous people’s resistance movements to safeguard and sustain their natural environments. I would affirm that Indigenous-led resistance movements and actions to preserve the environment protect ... -
White Cherokees on Red Earth: Blood and Belonging
Feeley, Evan (2021-12-17)In this thesis, I address White Cherokee identity, the historical trajectory it emerges from, and some of its political consequences. White Cherokee identity comes from social arrangements, place relationships, and ...