Browsing by Thesis Advisor "Lawless, Elaine J."
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Deaf identity, motherhood and transforming normalcy : an ethnographic challenge to disability studies' treatment of personal experience narratives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis is a fieldwork-based examination of personal experience narratives told by Deaf and hearing mothers of Deaf children. Using participant ... -
Environmental discourse and cultural identity on American waterways : regional folklore, folk practice, and natural responsibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)This thesis project provides auto-ethnographic material that is analyzed from the perspective of folklore studies and is centered on the practices involved with whitewater river rafting. The specific context of the author's ... -
Fractured folk : surfing for folklore frameworks in the face of science, cyber-anxieties and the techno-apocalypse
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The framework of this thesis breaks down a few specific examples of select paradigm shifts that occur when traditional models of folklore studies are ... -
"If you don't laugh you'll cry": the occupational humor of white American prison workers and social workers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Through original fieldwork, this dissertation compares narrative occupational humor of white American social workers to that of white American prison workers, concluding that both occupational groups use humor, both performed ... -
Philanthropic tourism and artistic authenticity : cultural empathy and the western consumption of Kyrgyz art
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)My dissertation offers a culturally-based examination of the aid-driven western marketplace for Central Asian crafts based on detailed textual and visual analysis of websites, film, online and print catalogues, and comics ... -
Race, class, gender and property in women's writing of the Harlem Renaissance
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)By the 1920s, although slavery had been abolished in America decades before, many social, economic and legal inequalities remained between whites and blacks. This is well-known United States history, although to many, it ... -
Re/presenting traditions: identity, power, and politics in folklife programming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Deliberately playing on the word "tradition," in Re/Presenting Traditions: Identity, Power, and Politics in Folklife Programming, my research interrogates both current practices of re/presenting traditional cultures to the ... -
Reconstructing gender, personal narrative, and performance at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This ethnographic study examines the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, a thirty-two-year-old, week-long event that features women performers and relies on an all female staff who produce the event for an audience of women ... -
Talking turkey : visual media and the unraveling of Thanksgiving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)Standing at the core of American culture, Thanksgiving is an invented tradition celebrated by millions of Americans. This dissertation examines contemporary representations of Thanksgiving in "the media of everyday life" ...