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Anthropology and Ethnography Collection
MSS 307
6 linear feet
6 boxes
1993-2004
Collection of anthropology and ethnography projects created by students while taking anthropology courses at Boise State University under the direction of Professor Robert McCarl.
Collection contains anthropology ethnography projects of students taking anthropology courses at Boise State University under the direction of Professor Robert McCarl.
Collection is open for research with the exception of selected material. Contact Special Collections and Archives for additional information.
The collection is arranged into five series: Projects with Audio-Visual Materials, Projects without Audio-Visual Materials, and three special projects: Foodways, Invasive Species and Noxious Weeds, and Treasure Valley Orchards and Produce
Material donated in June and July of 2007 by BSU professor Dr. Robert McCarl.
See also: Idaho Farmworker Policy Research Project Collection
Ethnographic Video Collection
Life History Anthropology Project Collection
[item description], General Anthropology and Ethnography Collection, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.
The Anthropology and Ethnography Collection is the result of anthropology coursework at Boise State University under the direction of Professor Robert McCarl. The material covers a wide range of topics, including beekeeping, foodways, urban planning, "smokejumping" fire fighters, the role plant ecology in fire fighting, and the Tibetan community of Boise among others.
The collection includes release forms, video logs, and student papers, some of which contain first-person accounts about their ethnographic subjects. The audio-visual materials are interviews recorded mostly on audio cassettes.
Forms part of the Ethnographic Archive of the Intermountain West.
Projects with Audio-Visual Materials
Series 1
Alternative medicine: acupuncturist, hypnotist, reiki practitioner
1996
1
1-2
Alzheimer's disease caregiver
2004
1
3-4
Baha'i community of Boise
1998
1
5-6
Beekeeping: Steele family, a multi-generational family of professional and hobbyist beekeepers, assistance to the State of Idaho's Bee Inspector
2002
1
7-9
Body art in Boise, New Moon tattoo parlor, traditional and alternative piercing
2002
1
10-12
Boise Contemporary Theatre, "From the Stage of This Enchanted Prairie Dog"
2002
1
13-15
Boise suburbs: Surprise Valley, Eagle Knoll, Red Leaf Heights, Holland Realty, Macaile Way, Five Rivers Fine Home Furnishings
2001
1
16-17
Boise urban development: Meridian, Idaho
1997
1
18-19
Children's Map Project and Children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
1998
1
20-22
Cocktail Waitressing: Buster's Bar
2000
1
23-24
"Dangerous Dave," kayaker Dave Norell
2004
1
25-27
Dave Norell was a kayaker and adventure sports competitor who unexpectedly died of a heart condition while competing in Boise's Pole Pedal Paddle Race (kayaking, bicycling, and skiing) on April 24, 2004. He was sponsored by several kayaking companies, served as an editor for Kayak Magazine, and released two kayaking videos: The Revolution and Broke Hungry and Happy, the Revolution II. Dave Norell was also worked as a weekend news editor for KTVB-TV, channel 7. Includes a photocopy of two pages from Dave Norell's journal and two poems about Dave written by a friend.
Dream interpretation, Lowell "Stew" Stewart
2003
2
1-2
Dusty Acres Equestrian Center, boarding horses, Kuna, Idaho
2002
2
3-4
Female impersonation in Boise: "female illusionist" show at the Neurolux bar, organized by Lips, Inc.
2000
2
5-7
Fishing in an urban setting, Boise River, Boise
2003
2
8-10
Food service industry, "Skating Behind The Line," study of behavior during smoking breaks
2002
2
11-12
Football through mass media
2000
2
13-14
Goddess Night Celebration: Samhain Sabat pagan festival in the Eastern Hills of Boise, the Golden Thread Grove Church of Boise, modern practicing of witchcraft, and Wiccan beliefs
2002
2
15-16
Gay culture within the Christian community: Treasure Valley Community Church, an all-gay congregation.
2004
2
17-18
Gay male identification of other gay males in Boise, "Taking Precautions and Making Sure"
2004
2
19-20
Home birth, midwife services of Ida Home Birth
1995
2
21-22
Home ownership and home purchasing in Boise
1997
2
23-24
Homedale, Idaho bar culture and bar ownership
1999
2
25-28
Homemaking night, Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints (LDS) social event for Mormon women
1999
2
28-30
"How We Sell Ourselves." Four occupations: dairy farmer, massage therapist, bartender, and exotic dancer
2004
2
31-32
Idaho State Correctional Department Medical Department
2004
3
1-2
Idaho Youth Ranch thrift store
2001
3
3-4
Indian students in Boise State University engineering program
2004
3
5-6
Jail, ethnography of a jail in Idaho
1995
3
7-8
Japanese International Students
2001
3
9-10
Karaoke
2000
3
11-12
Linemen, "Knights of the Spurs," power lineman around Boise
2004
3
13-14
Long distance running and the Boise State University track team
1997
3
15-16
Metaphysics and Reiki
2003
3
17-19
Military Wives at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Coping with Social Pressures
2001
4
5-6
Minimum wage, "Cookie Culture"
1996
3
20-21
North End Neighborhood: Policy guide, Neighborhood Watch, Hyde Park, Ten Thousand Villages
2001
4
1-2
Plant ecology and wildfire risk: biologist/ecologist from the Bureau of Land Management regarding plant specimens taken from East Tablerock Rd. in Northridge Subdivision and had them analyzed regarding their utility in helping to shield Boise from wildfires, given their location on the front line of the urban/wildland interface.
1997
4
3-4
Printing and graphics, Boise State University
2002
4
7-8
Punk culture, Emmet and Boise
2004
4
9-10
Rock band Stella, folk rock
2000
4
11-12
Ron's Lakeshore Service, Nampa, Idaho, farmers socializing in the early morning
2001
4
13-14
Service Employees International Union Local 687, home health care employees
2002
4
15-16
Smokejumpers, aerial wildland firefighters, rookie class
2002
4
17-18
Skateboarding "'til my body can't take it...", Rhodes Skate Park
1995-1996
4
19-20
Streetlight maintenance
2002
5
1-2
Syringa House, Nampa; residential treatment center for girls (organized under Northwest Children's Home, Inc.)
2004
5
3-4
Tibetan community, Tashi Dondup, Jan Reeves
1997
5
5-7
Transcendental Meditation
2000
5
8-9
Urban Daycare, Women and Children's Alliance
1997
5
10-12
Water quality and water quantity in Boise River Valley
2002
5
13-14
Wilson Springs, Nampa, man-made fishing area; handicapped accessibility and recreation for the young and elderly
2002
5
15-17
Winemaking, Sunnsyslope, Ste. Chappelle winery
2002
5
18-19
Projects without Audio-Visual Materials
Series 2
Air Traffic Controllers, Boise airport
2000
5
20
Anarchy community, Black Bloc
2000
5
21
Automotive Parts Warehouse, Kaps Automotive, "Cobwebs and Classic Rock: A Smokers Paradise"; management styles, drinking habits, attitudes about long-term underemployment
2000
5
22
Barber Shop, Talk of the Town; barber shops to the African American community
2004
5
23
Baseball, Boise Nags, Rocky Mountain Instructional League
1993, 2004
5
24
Bicycle commuters, "Implications of a Potential Boise City Ordinance"
1998
5
25
Boise Hash House Harriers, loosely-organized international running, social, and drinking organization
2004
5
26
Boise Rescue Mission, a Christian homeless shelter
2001
5
27
Boise State University Football
2004
5
28
C.W. Moore Park
1997
5
29
Canyon-Owyhee School Services Agency (COSSA), participant observation of vocational training of high school students
2001
5
30
Castle Rock development, interview with a Native American tribal member
1997
5
31
Construction workers
1998
5
32
"The Cruise: Moving Meat Market," ethnographic study of a section of downtown Boise where youth "cruise" on weekend evenings, sometimes with the intent of meeting members of the opposite sex
2002
5
33
Department store retail employees, Bon Marche
1996
5
34
Electric gas meter repair shop
2002
5
35
Exotic dancer, female
2004
5
36
Exotic dancing, women and men
1997
5
37
Fairly Reliable Bob's car dealership
2003
5
38
Female correctional officers in an Idaho prison
2004
5
39
Fire department, Mountain Home Air Force Base
2000
6
1
Fire fighting, Boise urban environment
1996
6
2
Foreign-born nationals from Mexico and El Salvador
2004
6
3
"Freshies," downhill skiing in fresh powder, Sun Valley
1998
6
4
Gay marriage, two men
1998
6
5
Harley Davidson motorcycle culture
2004
6
6
Homeless, El Ada soup kitchen
1999
6
7
Illusions & Co. salon
2002
6
8
Japanese-American experience during World War II of a married couple - the husband served for the United States and the wife was sent to an internment camp
2002
6
9
Jazz singer, Jeannie Hoard Hochstrasser, of Portland, Las Vegas, and Boise
2004
6
10
Karate, Idaho Kempo Karate Association
2000
6
11
"A Sexual Lifestyle," swinger lifestyle
2000
6
12
Sexual harassment in a barroom setting
1996
6
13
Single-parented families
1999
6
14
Skateboarding, Fort Boise Skateboard Park
2001
6
15
Skinny dipping, Skinnydipper Hot Springs
2004
6
16
Sports department, downtown Boise YMCA, Youth and Community Sports
2002
6
17
Tattoo, symbolic significance to a Vietnam veteran
2002
6
18
Terry Reilly Health Clinic, Nampa
2004
6
19
Ultimate Frisbee, participation of women
1997
6
20
United States Postal Service, computerized forwarding service (CFS) center
2002
6
21
Williams Residential Center, home for individuals with developmental disabilities
2001
6
22
Foodways
Series 3
In 1995, 1999, and 2003, a section of Dr. McCarl's anthropology students focused on Foodways, the cultural, social and economic practices relating to the production and consumption of food. The students sought out a place to observe the preparation of food, either in homes or eating establishments.
Ada County Sheriff, Boise State University substation
2003
6
23
"An Evening With the Sander Ladies," rural Idaho
2003
6
24
Angell's Restaurant
1999
6
25-26
Asian restaurant in Boise (unnamed) with Chinese and Vietnamese staff
1999
6
27
Bar Gernika, Basque restaurant
2003
6
28-30
Boise Senior Center, congregate dining
2003
6
31-33
Cafe Ole, Mexican-American restaurant
1995
6
34
Cobby's Sandwich Shop
2001
6
35
Dreamwalker Coffee Shop, "counter-culture" gathering place
1997
6
36
Idaho State Department of Corrections, "Peanut Butter and Jelly again..."
2003
6
37
"Making dinner for the Mafia," foodways study of a rural, Catholic, Italian-American and Irish-American family near Mountain Home with roots in New York City
2003
6
38
Mashed potatoes
1999
6
39
Military food culture, mechanized combat company, Gowen Field
2003
6
40
Moon's Kitchen Cafe
1999
6
41
Moxie Java coffee shop
2001
6
42
Pampered Chef party
2003
6
43
Pizza Hut, Boise Ave.
1995
6
44
Single motherhood, "Give, Take, and Improvise", employee at the YMCA
1995
6
45
Tapas restaurant
1999
6
46-47
The Timber's Inn, Emmett
1999
6
48
Invasive Species and Noxious Weeds
Series 4
2002
Equine concerns (effects of weeds on horses and a horse's ability to spread weeds)
7
49
Jump Creek, Owyhee County
7
50
Puncturvine
7
51-52
Orchards and Produce Project
Series 5
2001 May
In Spring of 2001, Dr. McCarl's students focused on fruit orchards in the Treasure Valley area, the Boise, Idaho Farmer's Market, and their relationship.
Comparison of Emmet and Sunnyslope
7
53
The Idaho Apple Orchard Project
7
54
Issues relating to the decline of Southern Idaho orchards and produce growers
7
55
Local Produce in Boise
7
56-57
Perspectives on Sunnyslope's Orchards
7
58-59