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Reflecting On Our Terrain: How People And Places Create A Spirit Of Home, Meagan E. Harkins

Honors Theses

This thesis explores the nature of home. It situates the idea of home, both as a physical place and a spiritual state, where the subjects of these stories find belonging. Fourteen interviews were conducted, from December 2020 through February 2021, resulting in a series of longform stories. Eight interviews were recorded with immediate family and childhood friends in my hometown, the suburbs of Orlando, Fla. The balance of the stories derived from Zoom interviews, culminating in a 1,200-mile road journey to South Carolina, for the remaining ones.

What emerged from these oral history interviews and ensuing longform pieces are three …

İyo Luché!: Uncovering And Interrupting Silencing In An Indigenous And Afro-Descendant Community, Eileen Cecelia Deluca

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this applied project is to uncover and interrupt the silencing of memories through the production of public narratives, specifically, the documentation of heritage of members of an indigenous and Afro-descendant community in Waspán, Nicaragua. The project is informed by interviews with seven women ex-combatants in the Contra War (1980-1990). Oral histories, transcribed interviews, and field notes are the source for the content of a book of heritage stories that I produced as one output about the former combatants utilizing their own words. In this thesis, I argue that the values of the “conquering” group of Nicaragua (i.e. …

I’M Afraid Of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography Of A West Virginia Water Crisis, Luke E. Lassiter, Brian A. Hoey, Elizabeth Campbell

Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.

Written And Oral Histories Of The Chicano Movement At New Mexico Highlands University, 1968-1970, Julianna C. Wiggins

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

This thesis presents spoken, written, and drawn histories produced before the Chicano Movement at New Mexico Highlands University in November 1970 and the discourses which have followed in the movement’s wake fifty years later. This qualitative study explores the campus climate at NMHU using the student newspaper Highlands Candle. Its contents from 1968 until 1971 are contrasted with the multiple voices of a generation which adopted the term Chicano as a racial identifier into the NMHU vernacular. Social factors including the formation of student-of-color groups and the return of veterans from the Vietnam War appear to change the student …

Climate Change, Colonialism, And Second-Class Citizenry: A Case Study Of The Impacts Of Hurricane María In Puerto Rico, Aislyne Calianos

Senior Honors Projects

The hurricane season of 2017 was a historic one, with mammoth storms making landfall one after another, in what seemed like an unrelenting assault on our coastal cities and communities. Hurricane Harvey inundated Houston, Irma plowed through Florida, and Maria devastated Puerto Rico, but one of these storms was unlike the others. Why is it that the American citizens of our southern states were able to recover so much more quickly than our citizens in Puerto Rico? In the era of climate change, we will be forced to reckon with the modern legacy of colonialism, as vulnerable communities must face …

The Other Earthquake: Janil Lwijis, Student Social Movements, And The Politics Of Memory In Haiti, Laura A. Leisinger

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Among increased calls for "new narratives" of Haiti, this thesis seeks to honor Haitian traditions of intellectualism and resistance, centering on the life and legacy of martyred professor Janil Lwijis in post-earthquake student social movements. Based on oral histories with student activists at the State University of Haiti (UEH), this work explores student protest in Haiti through the voices, often at odds, of those en lutte; it explores how Janil is invoked and remembered, and argues that oral history can contribute to activist research and pose a challenge to dominant narratives. A legacy that is contested, differential claims to Janil's …

Maritime Alpine Cairns In Southeast Alaska: A Multidisciplinary Exploratory Study, William J. Hunt Jr., Ralph J. Hartley, Bruce Mccune, Nijmah Ali, Thomas F. Thornton

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

This report describes the goals, data recovery methods, data analysis, and conclusions of a pilot project “A Multidisciplinary Exploratory Study of Alpine Cairns, Baranof Island, Southeast Alaska,” funded by the National Science Foundation under Project No. 1230132. The project brought together experts in the disciplines of archaeology (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), lichenology (Oregon State University), and Tlingit oral history (Oxford University) to address questions regarding artificial prehistoric, high altitude cairns. Data were collected in 2013 and 2014. Pedestrian archaeological inventory recorded 50 cairns at 5 sites. Archaeological data includes cairn dimensions, GPS positions, still photographic images, and video documentation. Four cairns …

Everyday Farm Life In The Moxee Valley 1915-1950: Historical Ethnography, Terri Towner

All Master's Theses

This study collected oral histories of those who lived or worked in the Moxee Valley, within the greater Yakima Valley of Washington State from 1915-1950. It documents and records the historical and cultural processes of farm life and its evolution for people living in this foremost hop-growing region of the United States. The larger goal is to characterize the community and social processes for use as primary source documentation to create historically accurate programs at the Gendron Hop Ranch-Living History Farm near Moxee. Nineteen participants were interviewed. Topics addressed in the study include farming in the Valley, the household, roles …

Piles Of Salt: A Narrative Of Civil War, Refugeeism, And Sociopolitical Transnationalism, Patrice M. Niltasuwan

Masters Theses

Employing oral history methodology, this research project was presented in the form of a biography. The focus was a humanistic approach to understanding the effects of civil war tlirough a first-person account of the lived experience. Through examination of the life history narrative of an immigrant refugee who survived the Laotian Civil War, the war itself is explored from a personal perspective as well as other issues relevant to refugeeism and immigration in America including policy, citizenship, identity, family, acculturation, and transnationalism.

By personalizing war through the voice of one who experienced it, a new perspective arises; not only are …

Oral History, Working Class Culture, And Local, Pauleena M. Macdougall

Publications

Stories of factory closings from many industries throughout the latter part of the twentieth century are common and numerous studies have documented the economic impact of these unfortunate events. In this case study of Brewer, Maine, oral histories with former workers at the primary source of local employment, Eastern Corporation, illuminate the nature of management-worker interactions at the mill. Eastern’s former employee narratives reveal a surprisingly unified perspective regarding the closing of the mill that does not reflect the public narrative put forward by management and business leaders.

Farming Williamsburg: A Collaborative Oral History Project Of Williamsburg's Agrarian Past, Angela Labrador

Angela M Labrador

No abstract provided.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 34, No. 2, Burt Feintuch, Jonathan R. Stayer, Lyle L. Rosenberger, B. G. Till, Martha S. Ross, Guy Graybill, Susan B. Trace

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• A Fiddler's Life
• An Interpretation of Some Ritual and Food Elements of the Brethren Love Feast
• Pottery Making in Quakertown: 1800-1879
• Teddy Bears: An Enduring Folk Tradition
• Lucia Day
• Dippy, Son of Puddin'
• Persecution and Genocide: The General Problem as Illustrated by the Anabaptist Experience

Three Generations Of Italians: Interview With Marie Dicristofaro Strumolo By Norma Delibero, Marie Dicristofaro Strumolo

Three Generations of Italians

Subjects covered: early schooling, Classical High School, identifying at URI, continuity of foods, values, parents' role in urging higher education, desire to be recognized for accomplishments not ethnic background.

Three Generations Of Italians: Interview With Anna Petteruti By Susan Mcguire, Anna Petteruti

Three Generations of Italians

Subjects covered: life in Italy, family in Italy, reasons for leaving, settlement in America, family in America, social issues.

Three Generations Of Italians: Interview With Etta Oliveri By Paris Ledoux, Etta Oliveri

Three Generations of Italians

Subjects covered: life in Italy, emigrations, early settlement, employment, ethnic identity.

Three Generations Of Italians: Interview With Mario Pantano By Norma Dilibero, Mario Pantano

Three Generations of Italians

Subjects covered: life in Italy as a child, in the service and married; financial decisions and plans for America, entering a new country with no money, relatives or friends; examining the job market (saving money to send back to Italy), work and saving money so that the rest of the family could come; arrival of family in United States, job change, education of children in the United States; death of first wife and second marriage; fulfillment through children and grand children, gratitude for living in United States.

Three Generations Of Italians: Interview With Alfred Destafano By Susan Mcguire, Alfred Destafano

Three Generations of Italians

Subjects covered: descriptions of home in Italy, family, occupations of father, mother, husband, departure from Italy and reasons, expectations about America and length of stay, adjustments to money and language in United States, traditions brought from Italy, importance of family, ethnic identity, desire for return visit to Italy, would she come here again?, church affiliation.

From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Paulo Carvalho By Joseph Conforti, Paulo Carvalho

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Charlotte Lee By Joseph Conforti, Charlotte Lee

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Joseph Lecount By Joseph Conforti, Joseph Lecount

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Benjamin Ferdman By Joseph Conforti, Benjamin Ferdman

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Gabriel Crevier By Joseph Conforti, Gabriel Crevier

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Prudence Hawkins By Joseph Conforti, Prudence Hawkins

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Beryl Segal By Joseph Conforti, Beryl Segal

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With James Williams By Joseph Conforti, James Williams

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Pauline Gugliemino By Joseph Conforti, Pauline Gugliemino

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Santina Satti By Joseph Conforti, Santina Satti

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Juan Francisco By Joseph Conforti, Juan Francisco

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Isabella Zuleta By Joseph Conforti, Isabella Zuleta

From Immigrant to Ethnic

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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Arthur Gregian By Joseph Conforti, Arthur Gregian

From Immigrant to Ethnic

No abstract provided.