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Of Berry Pickers, Shanty Boys, And The Jack Pine Bird: Patterns Of Settlement And Subsistence In Nineteenth Century Oscoda County, Rose Lockwood Moore

Masters Theses

The provisions of the Homestead Act of 1863 (U.S. Congress 1862a) required a settlement pattern of dispersed single families on small tracts of land, which, in turn, affected the subsistence strategies available to the homesteaders. The interaction of federal land legislation with the ecosystem of southern Oscoda County resulted in marked spatial and temporal differences between the tracts that were homesteaded as opposed to those acquired for their timber. A sample population of quarter sections was analyzed in terms of the physical and biotic environments, date of entry, and use. The analysis confirmed that the timber lands were located on …

An Exploratory Study Of Female Networking In A Mormon Fundamentalist Polygynous Society, Janet Bennion Cannon

Dissertations and Theses

The present study is comprised of two parts: 1) an exploratory ethnography of a contemporary polygynous community governed by a strong patriarchal ideology in Pinesdale Montana with emphasis on social relationships, and 2) an analysis of the factors which have allowed women's groups to develop in Mormon fundamentalism. The ethnographic account of the community contextualizes the occurrence of female groups in Pinesdale. A model of the formation of female groups designed by Nancy Leis (1974) in her study of the West African Ijaw is used to provide a better understanding of how female groups are formed, and is applied to …

Ethnography Of A Lesbian Community In Michigan, Carol W. Burton

Masters Theses

The purpose of this master's thesis is to describe the structure and workings of a community of women in a major western Michigan metropolitan area, who identify themselves as lesbians, and to describe how this subcommunity relates to the dominant American culture in the area. This study examines the ways in which these lesbians define themselves and their subculture.

To facilitate this research, the researcher participated in the group's meetings, both formal and informal, and spoke with individual members about the history of the group, organizational principles, problems and concerns, formal and Informal rules of conduct, values, and any other …

Mt Greylock: The Years Before Protection 1760-1900, Susan Ann Denault

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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The Cemeteries Of St Eustatius, N.A: Status In A Caribbean Community, Laurie J. Paonessa

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"Near The Governor's": Patterns Of Development Of Three Properties Along Williamsburg's Palace And Nicholson Streets In The Eighteenth Century, Patricia Merle Samford

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Four Perceptions Of Suicide In Sixteenth- And Early Seventeenth-Century England, Alexandra Mary Lord

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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An Ethnoarchaeological Study Of The Cisterns In Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, Ross K. Harper

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Literature As A Tool For Cultural Analysis: A Post-Processual Examination Of The Ante-Bellum Tidewater Elite 1830-1860, Shirley Kathryn Holmes

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The Stone Ovens Of St Eustatius: A Study Of Material Culture, Maria Lavinia Machado Monteiro

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Master-Slave Relations: A Williamsburg Perspective, Ywone Edwards-Ingram

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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