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For the Anthropology Department, public anthropology involves bringing the issues, concerns, and insights of anthropology to both an academic and non-academic audience, striving to produce materials that speak to a wide range of social sectors. Among the projects faculty and students are engaged in are: a) Human Rights (students and faculty serve in intern, training, and consultancy positions in NGO's and documentation organizations); b) The Life of a Strawberry (in which students examine the human labor relations and structural connections involved in food production, distribution, and consumption of strawberries in Oregon); and c) Unearthing the Dead (involving working with a Guatemalan exhumation team, to locate clandestine graves, document the cause of death and those responsible as well as return the remains to family members for a proper burial). Anthropology majors can focus on objectives, legal background, operational problems, ethical and scholarly considerations in the management of prehistoric and historic cultural resources in the Pacific Northwest. An example is the Southwest Oregon Research Project involving a collaborative effort between the Coquille Indian Tribe, the UO, and the Smithsonian Institution to develop archival resources that should lead to a better understanding of military actions, ethnohistory, and the early settlement of the Oregon Territory. Arts management combines knowledge in the visual and performing arts with social, cultural, managerial, and educational concerns that pertain to administering both nonprofit and for-profit arts organizations and programs. It is a multidisciplinary field dedicated to increasing opportunities in arts and culture for individuals and society. A growing group of scholars critically examines issues in the arts and society from community to international-policy levels. Study of these issues is vital to effective arts management for cultural preservation and professional advancement of the arts in the United States and abroad. The Many Nations Longhouse is part of a larger initiative that learns from and serves the Native American communities and individuals of the Pacific Northwest. Among its components are: a) an effort by the University of Oregon to recruit, support, and mentor Native American students; b) New Directions in Anthropology - an effort by the Department of Anthropology to work closely with Native American communities of the Pacific Coast to preserve and protect native archaeological sites; c) Native American Gatherings in which the University of Oregon campus becomes a focal point for tribal and community gatherings in Oregon; and d) Native Peoples Worldwide, an international program that studies indigenous peoples around the world and, through the Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival, examines the state of Indigenous peoples globally and their struggles to maintain culture. Concentrations within the program include medicine and disease; human adaptation, biology, and nutrition; forensic anthropology; paleoanthropology; primatology; and evolutionary anatomy and morphology (skeletal and dental). Under the program doctoral committee members may be selected from the University of Oregon faculty as well as from anthropology faculty at Oregon State University and Portland State University. The interdisciplinary Folklore Program offers perspectives on ethnic, regional, occupational, age, gender, and other traditional identities of individuals in specific societies and cultures. Students in the program explore the extent to which tradition continues to enrich and express the dynamics of human behavior throughout the world through fieldwork with an emphasis on film and video documentation and presentation. Southwest Oregon Research Project The Program involves collecting information gathered from Native people, many who lived more than 100 years ago and returning it to their families. From 1995 onward there has been an effort to copy and repatriate 110,000 pages of archival documents from the National Anthropological Archives and National Archives in Washington, D.C. to the members of the Coquille, Siletz, Coos, Siuslaw and Lower Umpqua, and Grand Ronde tribes. In addition the Project has assisted the Coquille Tribe of western Oregon to organize potlatches that bring together tribal representatives from throughout the greater Oregon area to reaffirm interfamilial connections. Institute for a Sustainable Environment The Institute's activities produces information that can enable people to sustain the economies and environmental systems that support their communities. Among its projects are: a) Developing information to help people downwind of the Chernobyl accident make safer choices in living in and feeding themselves from their environment; b) Assisting Micronesian islands in their environmental and economic development planning; and c) Conducting studies to assist people in Oregon's Willamette Valley to deal with rapid population growth while sustaining wildlife habitat, water quality, agriculture, and economic development. Museum
of Natural History The Museum was established to enhance public knowledge of the natural history and anthropology of Oregon as well as the broader world. Among its goals are the preserving objects illustrative of and significant to the natural history as well as providing access to this knowledge through public education outside the boundaries of the University's curriculum. The Research Division, a separate and self-supporting section of the Museum, conducts archaeological research under contract with state agencies and a few large corporations, in compliance with federal and state cultural resource protection laws, as well as through grants and other awards. This Division handles work for Oregon Department of Transportation highway projects as wekk as other large development projects.
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William Ayres Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Aletta Biersack Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Arif Dirlik Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Stephen Frost Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Douglas Kennett Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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John Lukacs Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Geraldine Moreno Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Madonna Moss Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Theresa O’Nell Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Philip Scher Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Carol Silverman Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Lynn Stephen Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Josh Snodgrass Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Lawrence Sugiyama Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Stephen Wooten Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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