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2009-2010 Course Catalog, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar Jan 2009

2009-2010 Course Catalog, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Course Catalogs, 1895-2024

An annual catalog of courses and course descriptions offered at the University of Montana.

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Sumbawan Obstetrics: The Social Construction Of Obstetrical Practice In Rural Indonesia, Vanessa Hildebrand Jan 2009

Sumbawan Obstetrics: The Social Construction Of Obstetrical Practice In Rural Indonesia, Vanessa Hildebrand

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This dissertation examines the ways that the people in the village of Lunyuk, Sumbawa negotiate relationships and identity in their discussions about pregnancy and childbirth. At the center of the analysis are dueling midwives: those with biomedical training: bidan) versus those who use a local indigenous obstetrical knowledge similar to that found in much of Indonesia: dukun bayi). They compete with each other for patients, who are likewise making sense of their position in the world while juggling the pressures from national citizenship, local ethnic membership, Islam, and obstetric knowledge options. Specifically, this dissertation examines how people in this region …

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In The Voices Of Men, Beasts, And Gods: Unmasking The Abject Persona In Postwar And Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry, Lee Friederich Jan 2009

In The Voices Of Men, Beasts, And Gods: Unmasking The Abject Persona In Postwar And Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry, Lee Friederich

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This dissertation examines the dramatic use of personae of abjection in the works of contemporary and postwar Japanese women poets Ishigaki Rin: 1920-2004), Tomioka Taeko: b. 1935), Yoshihara Sachiko: 1932-2002), It├┤ Hiromi: b. 1955), and Isaka Yok├┤: b. 1949). Recognizing the strong sense of abjection that permeates postwar and contemporary Japanese poetry in general, I explore the ways in which women poets embody the abject--the fantastically grotesque, the deviant and the mortally wounded--in their poetry. Turning away from the dictates of twentieth century critics that women poets write in a transparently autobiographical mode: primarily about their experiences as wives and …

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Rethinking Advaita: Who Is Eligible To Read Advaita Texts?, Anantanand Rambachan Jan 2009

Rethinking Advaita: Who Is Eligible To Read Advaita Texts?, Anantanand Rambachan

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

My most recent work, The Advaita Worldview: God, World and Humanity, exemplifies two related movements. First, I join the growing stream of scholars who are making efforts to distinguish the interpretations of Sankara from later Advaita exegetes. The uncritical equation of Sankara's views with those of later exegetes needs to be challenged. Second, I contend that Advaita reflection and scholarship cannot limit itself to the clarification of Sankara's interpretations. These interpretations must also be critically evaluated in order for the tradition to be relevant and creative. It is problematic to assume that Sankara was immune from historical influences, cultural …

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Ecstasy And Nonduality: On Comparing Varieties Of Immanence, John J. Thatamanil Jan 2009

Ecstasy And Nonduality: On Comparing Varieties Of Immanence, John J. Thatamanil

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

For the benefit of those who have not read my book, let me offer a few framing remarks. I begin by noting that my initial working title for the book was Ecstasy and Nonduality, not The Immanent Divine. Although somewhat technical, the earlier title had the virtue of stipulating that my book compares two specific types of divine immanence. I root each sort of immanence in a fundamental scriptural locus within the Christian and Hindu traditions. In the Christian case, the scriptural text is Romans 8:26, "Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not …

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Book Review: "Christianity In India: From Beginnings To The Present", Kristin Bloomer Jan 2009

Book Review: "Christianity In India: From Beginnings To The Present", Kristin Bloomer

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Christianity in India: From Beginnings to the Present by Robert Eric Frykenberg.

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Recent Articles Of Interest 2009 Jan 2009

Recent Articles Of Interest 2009

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A listing of recently published articles of interest to the Society.

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Books Reviewed In Hcsb And Jhcs Vols 1-22 (1988-2009) Jan 2009

Books Reviewed In Hcsb And Jhcs Vols 1-22 (1988-2009)

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A listing of all the books reviewed in the publication, volumes 1 through 22.

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Kidney Transplantation: Only For The Well-To-Do?, Jennifer M. Smith Jan 2009

Kidney Transplantation: Only For The Well-To-Do?, Jennifer M. Smith

Journal Publications

The world of organ transplantation remains a wealthy one, especially in the United States. This is especially true for kidney transplantations, which involve the solid organ most in demand. Increasingly, transplant professionals desperately push for more solutions to overcome the organ transplant shortage that exists in the United States. Congress has introduced legislation that addresses the additional problem of the high cost of post-transplant anti-rejection medications by providing that the government will pay eighty percent of the cost for the post-transplant medications for life. But unless this bill passes and other needed changes are made, kidney transplantation remains an option …

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Legitimizing The Invented Congolese Space: The Gaze From Within In Early Congolese Fiction, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga Jan 2009

Legitimizing The Invented Congolese Space: The Gaze From Within In Early Congolese Fiction, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

Postcolonial discourses describe colonization as a process of invention to impose the will of a conquering West on "backward" societies. The will to power conjugated with the need for row materials served as the main catalysts. They put side by side a hegemonic intruder bent on duplicating itself, and a powerless and compliant native unable to react to the blitz of transformations. Hence, the master/slave or father/child relationships that describe the colonial framework. The task is to interrogate these generally accepted assumptions and binary oppositions. Although marginalized, the Congolese native was unwilling to become on object for the colonizer's gaze. …

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Community Managed Rural Water Supply Systems In The Dominican Republic : Assessment Of Sustainability Of Systems Built By The National Institute Of Potable Water And Peace Corps, Dominican Republic , Ryan W. Schweitzer Jan 2009

Community Managed Rural Water Supply Systems In The Dominican Republic : Assessment Of Sustainability Of Systems Built By The National Institute Of Potable Water And Peace Corps, Dominican Republic , Ryan W. Schweitzer

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

In the Dominican Republic economic growth in the past twenty years has not yielded sufficient improvement in access to drinking water services, especially in rural areas where 1.5 million people do not have access to an improved water source (WHO, 2006). Worldwide, strategic development planning in the rural water sector has focused on participatory processes and the use of demand filters to ensure that service levels match community commitment to post-project operation and maintenance. However studies have concluded that an alarmingly high percentage of drinking water systems (20-50%) do not provide service at the design levels and/or fail altogether (up …

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Winning Coal At 78° North : Mining, Contingency And The Chaîne Opératoire In Old Longyear City, Seth C. Depasqual Jan 2009

Winning Coal At 78° North : Mining, Contingency And The Chaîne Opératoire In Old Longyear City, Seth C. Depasqual

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the evolution of an early 20th century mining system in Spitsbergen as applied by Boston-based Arctic Coal Company (ACC). This analysis will address the following questions: Did the system evolve in a linear, technological-based fashion? Or was the progression more a product of interactions and negotiations with the natural and human landscapes present during the time of occupation? Answers to these questions will be sought through review of historical records and material residues identified during the 2008 field examination on Spitsbergen. The Arctic Coal Company’s flagship mine, ACC Mine No. 1, …

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Ms 652 Christian Min/Multi-Cultural Soc, Steven Ybarolla Jan 2009

Ms 652 Christian Min/Multi-Cultural Soc, Steven Ybarolla

Syllabi

Angelou, Maya 1983 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN: 0553279378 Carroll, M. Daniel 2008 Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. ISBN: 080103566X. Crespo, Orlando 2003 Being Latino in Christ. Grand Rapids, MI: InterVarsity Press. ISBN: 0830823743. Kazin, Alfred 1969 A Walker in the City. New York: Harvest Books. ISBN: 0156941767 Priest, Robert and Alvaro Nieves, eds. 2007 This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0195310578. Scupin, Raymond, ed. 2003 Race and Ethnicity: An Anthropological Focus on the …

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Focus, 2009, Winter, Andrews University Jan 2009

Focus, 2009, Winter, Andrews University

Focus

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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Debate Over Justification By Faith: Evangelicals And Catholics, Normal R. Gulley Jan 2009

Debate Over Justification By Faith: Evangelicals And Catholics, Normal R. Gulley

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Debate Over Justification By Faith: Evangelicals And Catholics, Normal R. Gulley Jan 2009

Debate Over Justification By Faith: Evangelicals And Catholics, Normal R. Gulley

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

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Talvi, Women Behind Bars: The Crisis Of Women In The U.S. Prison System, Giovanna Shay Jan 2009

Talvi, Women Behind Bars: The Crisis Of Women In The U.S. Prison System, Giovanna Shay

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Ross, Women's Human Rights: The International And Comparative Law Casebook, Mary Pat Treuthart Jan 2009

Ross, Women's Human Rights: The International And Comparative Law Casebook, Mary Pat Treuthart

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Unf Raises The Roof On Osprey Fountains, University Of North Florida Alumni Association Jan 2009

Unf Raises The Roof On Osprey Fountains, University Of North Florida Alumni Association

Alumni Association

New sheet: Information from UNF Alumni Association regarding "UNF Happenings". Date: 2009

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The Six University Consortium Student Mobility Project: Promoting Conflict Resolution In The North American Context, Pauline Tennent, Jessica Senehi, Michael Ross Fowler, Sean Byrne Jan 2009

The Six University Consortium Student Mobility Project: Promoting Conflict Resolution In The North American Context, Pauline Tennent, Jessica Senehi, Michael Ross Fowler, Sean Byrne

Peace and Conflict Studies

This article focuses on the North American Conflict Resolution Program - a twenty-first century mobility consortium in which universities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States exchanged students of conflict resolution. Drawing on student perceptions and, in particular, the experiences of the universities of Manitoba and Louisville, the authors discuss the positive outcomes of mobilizing students to study conflict resolution abroad for the students themselves, for faculty members involved, for university and other communities, and for the field of conflict analysis and resolution.

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Working The Common Law Pure: Developing The South African Law Of Delict (Torts) In Light Of The Spirit, Purport And Objects Of The South African Constitution's Bill Of Rights, Christopher J. Roederer Jan 2009

Working The Common Law Pure: Developing The South African Law Of Delict (Torts) In Light Of The Spirit, Purport And Objects Of The South African Constitution's Bill Of Rights, Christopher J. Roederer

School of Law Faculty Publications

Part I of this article both situates the South African legal system within a group of systems referred to as mixed jurisdictions and distinguishes it from that group by highlighting South Africa’s open, cosmopolitan tradition. Part II addresses the question of South Africa’s “relevance for us.” This section draws on the lessons of a number of approaches to comparative law and makes the case that South Africa’s law of delict is neither too unique nor too familiar for fruitful and interesting comparisons to the U.S. law of torts. It accomplishes this by explaining a number of core similarities and pointing …

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Annie Marion Maclean, Feminist Pragmatist And Methodologist, Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill, Susan L. Wortmann Jan 2009

Annie Marion Maclean, Feminist Pragmatist And Methodologist, Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill, Susan L. Wortmann

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Annie Marion Maclean was a major Chicago sociologist and methodologist. She was profoundly influenced by the gendered division of labor in sociology during her era. Maclean combined her work with the men and women of the early Chicago school of sociology and the women of Hull-House, an early social settlement. As a feminist pragmatist, Maclean was both a theorist and practitioner who used qualitative and quantitative methods. She set precedents in the Chicago school of ethnography, participant observation, and critical methodology. Maclean, however, was not the “mother” of ethnography. Harriet Martineau holds a far stronger claim to be a founding …

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Commencement Program (December 2009), Csusb Jan 2009

Commencement Program (December 2009), Csusb

CSUSB Commencement Programs

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Carterfone: My Story, Nicholas Johnson Jan 2009

Carterfone: My Story, Nicholas Johnson

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Repellent Crimes And Rational Deliberation: Emotion And The Death Penalty,, Susan Bandes Jan 2009

Repellent Crimes And Rational Deliberation: Emotion And The Death Penalty,, Susan Bandes

College of Law Faculty

No abstract provided.

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The Emergence Of Biotechnology In The State Of Mississippi: A Review, Whitman Scott Dowlen Jan 2009

The Emergence Of Biotechnology In The State Of Mississippi: A Review, Whitman Scott Dowlen

Honors Theses

This publication was written with the intention of performing an analysis of the present in-state bioscience initiative and subsequent Mississippi industry incumbents. Hopefully, this publication will be employed as an informative tool to Mississippi residents, universities, policy makers and private corporations considering investment in research and development in the state of Mississippi.

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Crowning Glory: A Sociological Study Of Gender In The Beauty Pageant System, Lee Taylor Jan 2009

Crowning Glory: A Sociological Study Of Gender In The Beauty Pageant System, Lee Taylor

Honors Theses

This thesis provides a sociological examination of the personal experiences of beauty pageant participants in the South. By deconstructing the ideal view of women in beauty pageants, I attempted to answer how pageant contestants view their individual participation in the oppressive framework of the beauty pageant contest. In order to provide an in-depth analysis on the role of gender in beauty pageants, I conducted personal interviews and field study observations. Additionally, I researched current online sources and scholarly publications concerning gender and beauty pageants. The beauty pageant system demands that young women alter their bodies and personalities in order to …

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Coover's Encyclopedi Satire: The Public Burning Revisited, John Mauldin Jan 2009

Coover's Encyclopedi Satire: The Public Burning Revisited, John Mauldin

Honors Theses

This thesis seeks to explore Robert Coover’s The Public Burning, provide a brief exploration of the encyclopedic form, and subsequently establish The Public Burning as an encyclopedic narrative. It seeks to reanalyze the work through the lens of the encyclopedic narrative, primarily utilizing the critiques of Edward Mendelson. In addition, Northrop Frye and Richard Hardack are also cited extensively for their works the encyclopedic fonn. While the form has been recognized for the better part of a decade now, there is still a relatively small amount of criticism available on the form and on Coover’s work has gone relatively unnoticed …

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Host Majority Group Members' Acculturation Attitudes Towards Immigrant Groups., Kanako Miwa Jan 2009

Host Majority Group Members' Acculturation Attitudes Towards Immigrant Groups., Kanako Miwa

Master's Theses

One out of every four individuals residing in the U.S. lived in another country before moving to the U.S. Such an individual has to face acculturation. Research has consistently shown that immigrants differ in how they go about their acculturation. However, little is known about what acculturation strategies the majority group members believe immigrants should adopt in the host country. Therefore, the present study examines the host majority group members' (Euro-Americans) acculturation orientations toward two immigrant groups (Mexican and Japanese) on different life domains and identifies individual difference factors (e.g., social dominance orientation, social distance, and self-efficacy) that are related …

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La Razόn Ilustrada Visita Manila: Apuntes Por Doś Científicos Franceses, Fernando N. Zialcita Jan 2009

La Razόn Ilustrada Visita Manila: Apuntes Por Doś Científicos Franceses, Fernando N. Zialcita

Sociology & Anthropology Department Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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