Caroline H Bledsoe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 105185 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Caroline H Bledsoe |
| NOMBRES | Caroline H |
| APELLIDO | Bledsoe |
| FIRMA | BLEDSOE C H |
| AFILIACIONES | Northwestern University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 280 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Fertility and Culture
Janneke Verheijen, Balancing Men, Morals and Money
Family Reunification Ideals and the Practice of Transnational Reproductive Life among Africans in Europe
family, migration
Back to Africa
This paper examines the phenomenon of West African parents living in Europe and North America who send their older children back home: from places of high immigrant aspiration to those of hardship and privation. Drawing on a project on West African immigration to Europe and on previous field studies in Africa, we conclude that West African immigrants fearing the consequences of their children's indiscipline in the West, where racism and hostility…
Sociocultural anthropology's encounters with large public data sets
This article asks how socioculturally inspired questions can be illuminated by exploiting large demographic data sets. Focusing on people represented in the annually updated Spanish Municipal Register (the Padrón Municipal) who report themselves as citizens of countries outside Spain, it treats demographic numbers as texts that can speak to us as plainly as words about something as challenging as the dynamics of identity and belonging
High fertility Gambians in low fertility Spain
Based on an analysis of the Spanish census and the January 1, 2005 municipal register and on exploratory fieldwork in Catalonia, this paper combines ethnography and demography, in conjunction with current Spanish reunification law, to examine the dynam
Explaining Family Change and Variation
Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), a unique survey valuable to a wide range of family scholars. This paper describes the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of family demographers to build on the progress enabled by the NSFH and many other theoretical and methodological innovations. Our work,…
Reproduction at the Margins
One of the most compelling demographic questions in contemporary Europe has been whether immigrant populations will bring their youthful age pyramids to help support Europeâ s subfertile, aging populations. But how do immigrants envision their own repro
Contingent Lives
Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason - to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is …
Contingent Lives
Contingent Lives
The compound as a locus of fertility management
To explain the persistence of high fertility and low contraceptive prevalence in rural sub-Saharan Africa, demography has relied heavily on a framework that emphasizes institutional barriers to individual behavioural change. Such an approach assumes that in traditional societies, institutions such as polygyny exert a uniform effect on fertility for all women and hence, actors have little agency in fertility decision-making. One consequence of thi…
Constructing Natural Fertility
In 1992 in 41 villages in the North Bank region of rural Gambia researchers interviewed 2979 15-54 year old women to examine the means by which this population maintains natural fertility birth intervals. Only 3.3% had ever had formal schooling. The total fertility rate was 7.5. Criteria the women used in their decision making process about contraception included effectiveness confidentiality speed with which fecundity returns after the practice …
The effect of child fostering on feeding practices and access to health services in rural Sierra Leone
Arabic Literacy and Secrecy Among the Mende of Sierra Leone
This article examines the relationship between Arabic literacy and secrecy among the Mende of Sierra Leone. It argues that the acquisition of Arabic literacy, primarily associated with Islamic scholarship, has created a new domain of secrecy and esoteric knowledge, distinct from the traditional Mende secret societies. This literacy-based secrecy serves multiple functions, including reinforcing religious authority, facilitating communication withi…
Marrying Well
The reinterpretation of Western pharmaceuticals among the Mende of Sierra Leone
La Femme Africaine Dans la Societe Precoloniale
Slavery in Africa
Women in Accra
Constructing Natural Fertility
In 1992 in 41 villages in the North Bank region of rural Gambia researchers interviewed 2979 15-54 year old women to examine the means by which this population maintains natural fertility birth intervals. Only 3.3% had ever had formal schooling. The total fertility rate was 7.5. Criteria the women used in their decision making process about contraception included effectiveness confidentiality speed with which fecundity returns after the practice …
The effect of child fostering on feeding practices and access to health services in rural Sierra Leone
Arabic Literacy and Secrecy Among the Mende of Sierra Leone
This article examines the relationship between Arabic literacy and secrecy among the Mende of Sierra Leone. It argues that the acquisition of Arabic literacy, primarily associated with Islamic scholarship, has created a new domain of secrecy and esoteric knowledge, distinct from the traditional Mende secret societies. This literacy-based secrecy serves multiple functions, including reinforcing religious authority, facilitating communication withi…
The reinterpretation of Western pharmaceuticals among the Mende of Sierra Leone
Back to Africa
This paper examines the phenomenon of West African parents living in Europe and North America who send their older children back home: from places of high immigrant aspiration to those of hardship and privation. Drawing on a project on West African immigration to Europe and on previous field studies in Africa, we conclude that West African immigrants fearing the consequences of their children's indiscipline in the West, where racism and hostility…
Marrying Well
Explaining Family Change and Variation
Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), a unique survey valuable to a wide range of family scholars. This paper describes the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of family demographers to build on the progress enabled by the NSFH and many other theoretical and methodological innovations. Our work,…
Reproduction at the Margins
One of the most compelling demographic questions in contemporary Europe has been whether immigrant populations will bring their youthful age pyramids to help support Europeâ s subfertile, aging populations. But how do immigrants envision their own repro
High fertility Gambians in low fertility Spain
Based on an analysis of the Spanish census and the January 1, 2005 municipal register and on exploratory fieldwork in Catalonia, this paper combines ethnography and demography, in conjunction with current Spanish reunification law, to examine the dynam
Sociocultural anthropology's encounters with large public data sets
This article asks how socioculturally inspired questions can be illuminated by exploiting large demographic data sets. Focusing on people represented in the annually updated Spanish Municipal Register (the Padrón Municipal) who report themselves as citizens of countries outside Spain, it treats demographic numbers as texts that can speak to us as plainly as words about something as challenging as the dynamics of identity and belonging
Women in Accra
Slavery in Africa
Women in Accra
La Femme Africaine Dans la Societe Precoloniale
The reinterpretation of Western pharmaceuticals among the Mende of Sierra Leone
Arabic Literacy and Secrecy Among the Mende of Sierra Leone
This article examines the relationship between Arabic literacy and secrecy among the Mende of Sierra Leone. It argues that the acquisition of Arabic literacy, primarily associated with Islamic scholarship, has created a new domain of secrecy and esoteric knowledge, distinct from the traditional Mende secret societies. This literacy-based secrecy serves multiple functions, including reinforcing religious authority, facilitating communication withi…
Marrying Well
The effect of child fostering on feeding practices and access to health services in rural Sierra Leone
Constructing Natural Fertility
In 1992 in 41 villages in the North Bank region of rural Gambia researchers interviewed 2979 15-54 year old women to examine the means by which this population maintains natural fertility birth intervals. Only 3.3% had ever had formal schooling. The total fertility rate was 7.5. Criteria the women used in their decision making process about contraception included effectiveness confidentiality speed with which fecundity returns after the practice …
The compound as a locus of fertility management
To explain the persistence of high fertility and low contraceptive prevalence in rural sub-Saharan Africa, demography has relied heavily on a framework that emphasizes institutional barriers to individual behavioural change. Such an approach assumes that in traditional societies, institutions such as polygyny exert a uniform effect on fertility for all women and hence, actors have little agency in fertility decision-making. One consequence of thi…
Contingent Lives
Contingent Lives
Contingent Lives
Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason - to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is …
Reproduction at the Margins
One of the most compelling demographic questions in contemporary Europe has been whether immigrant populations will bring their youthful age pyramids to help support Europeâ s subfertile, aging populations. But how do immigrants envision their own repro
Explaining Family Change and Variation
Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), a unique survey valuable to a wide range of family scholars. This paper describes the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of family demographers to build on the progress enabled by the NSFH and many other theoretical and methodological innovations. Our work,…
High fertility Gambians in low fertility Spain
Based on an analysis of the Spanish census and the January 1, 2005 municipal register and on exploratory fieldwork in Catalonia, this paper combines ethnography and demography, in conjunction with current Spanish reunification law, to examine the dynam
Sociocultural anthropology's encounters with large public data sets
This article asks how socioculturally inspired questions can be illuminated by exploiting large demographic data sets. Focusing on people represented in the annually updated Spanish Municipal Register (the Padrón Municipal) who report themselves as citizens of countries outside Spain, it treats demographic numbers as texts that can speak to us as plainly as words about something as challenging as the dynamics of identity and belonging
Family Reunification Ideals and the Practice of Transnational Reproductive Life among Africans in Europe
family, migration
Back to Africa
This paper examines the phenomenon of West African parents living in Europe and North America who send their older children back home: from places of high immigrant aspiration to those of hardship and privation. Drawing on a project on West African immigration to Europe and on previous field studies in Africa, we conclude that West African immigrants fearing the consequences of their children's indiscipline in the West, where racism and hostility…
Janneke Verheijen, Balancing Men, Morals and Money
Fertility and Culture
Sociology (17 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Demography (7 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Fertility (6 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Population (6 obras) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (5 obras)