B Tucker
Biographic Data
| ID | 14404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Tucker |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Tucker |
| SIGNATURE | TUCKER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4620-9737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Archaeology, ethnography, and geosciences reveal central role of traditional lifeways in shaping Madagascar's dry forests
Many communities in southwestern Madagascar rely on a mix of foraging, fishing, farming, and herding, with cattle central to local cultures, rituals, and intergenerational wealth transfer. Today these livelihoods are critically threatened by the intensifying effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. Improved understanding of ancient community-environment dynamics can help identify pathways to livelihood sustainability. Multidisciplinary ap…
Ethnic Markers without Ethnic Conflict: Why do Interdependent Masikoro, Mikea, and Vezo of Madagascar Signal their Ethnic Differences
Où vivre sans boire revisited: Water and political-economic change among Mikea hunter-gatherers of southwestern Madagascar
In this article, I present a political-ecological history of the Mikea Forest of southwestern Madagascar, and of the Mikea people, anchored in four water-themed moments: 1966, with the publication of one of the first ethnographic descriptions of Mikea, Où vivre sans boire, "where they live without drinking"; 1998, when Mikea combined foraging with swidden maize agriculture and traveled long distances to get their water; 2003, when a Joint Commiss…
Frank Marlowe
New Dissertation Research Award for Economic Anthropologists
Economic Anthropology
economics, ecology, geography, and history.In 2017, Economic Anthropology doubled its annual publication list from one to two: a theme-based issue pegged to our annual conference, and a new Open Submission issue representing a wide variety of research engaged with
An ecosystem approach to explaining religious diversity: Why, how, and what
In the target article Wilson and colleagues offer a general theoretical framework meant to advance our understanding of the adaptive nature of religion beyond specific cases, functional adaptations
What does economic anthropology have to contribute to studies of risk and resilience: Studies of Risk and Resilience
The 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, held in Athens, Georgia, brought together speakers and poster presenters around the theme of risk and resilience. In this introduction to the corresponding issue of Economic Anthropology, we briefly summarize the landscape of past approaches to risk and resilience to situate the nine papers in this issue. These papers represent three themes: (1) how persons and communities with lim…
Inequalities beyond the Gini: Subsistence, social structure, gender, and markets in southwestern Madagascar
Development economists typically apply the same measures of inequality to the Global South as capitalist economies, such as Gini coefficients calculated over cash earnings (income) or asset value (wealth). Yet many rural peoples straddle the market economy of cash and wages and the nonmarket economy of gifts and obligations. We examine inequality in the context of Masikoro farmers, Mikea forager-farmers, and Vezo marine fishers of rural southwest…
Beyond Mean and Variance: Economic Risk Versus Perceived Risk of Farming, Foraging, and Fishing Activities in Southwestern Madagascar
Do Risk and Time Experimental Choices Represent Individual Strategies for Coping with Poverty or Conformity to Social Norms: Evidence from Rural Southwestern Madagascar
Eric Schniter and Nathaniel Wilcox comment on Bram Tucker's article, "Do Risk and Time Experimental Choices Represent Individual Strategies for Coping with Poverty or Conformity to Social Norms? Evidence from Rural Southwestern Madagascar", which "revisits a debate played out in Current Anthropology as to whether subsistence decisions are the result of individual strategy to cope with poverty and increase wealth... or conformity to social norms
When the Wealthy Are Poor: Poverty Explanations and Local Perspectives in Southwestern Madagascar
To reduce poverty, one must understand what poverty means in local contexts. We used focus groups to elicit a "folk model" of poverty from Masikoro, Vezo, and Mikea people in rural southwestern Madagascar and then placed this model in dialogue with four social science models: economic growth, substantivism, mode of production, and livelihoods. The folk model emphasizes household continuity, production of people, and exploitative expropriation by …
Foraging for Development: A Comparison of Food Insecurity, Production, and Risk among Farmers, Forest Foragers, and Marine Foragers in Southwestern Madagascar
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Bram Tucker, MR. Tsimitamby, Frances Humber, Sophie Benbow, Taku Iida; Foraging for Development: A Comparison of Food Insecurity, Production, and Risk among Farmers, Forest Foragers, and Marine Foragers in Southwestern Madagascar. Human O…
Perception of Interannual Covariation and Strategies for Risk Reduction among Mikea of Madagascar: Individual and Social Learning
Applying Behavioral Ecology and Behavioral Economics to Conservation and Development Planning: An Example from the Mikea Forest, Madagascar
The Human Behavioral Ecology of Contemporary World Issues: Applications to Public Policy and International Development
An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Mobility, Architectural Investment, and Food Sharing among Madagascar's Mikea
Ethnoarchaeology is a field of study that aims to provide the information needed to draw reliable behavioral inferences from archaeological data. In this study, data from four settlement types (permanent villages, forest hamlets, seasonal hamlets, and foraging camps) of a forager-farmer population in southwestern Madagascar are examined from an archaeological perspective. Doing so shows that house size, house post diameter variability, outdoor wo…
Constructing Mikea Identity: Past or Present Links to Forest and Foraging
Cultural identity is flexible, rich, and often debated, shaped by local and larger contexts. In this article we explore some of the complexity and diversity of how Mikea identity is constructed, particularly by those who identify themselves as such. The Mikea of southwestern Madagascar are associated with the forest and foraging and contrasted with Vezo fishers and Masikoro agropastoralists, yet these groups and their economic strategies both int…
Risk-senstive adaptive tactics: Models and evidence from subsistence studies in biology and anthropology
Earthquake risk management pilot project in Quito, Ecuador
Risk-senstive adaptive tactics: Models and evidence from subsistence studies in biology and anthropology
An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Mobility, Architectural Investment, and Food Sharing among Madagascar's Mikea
Ethnoarchaeology is a field of study that aims to provide the information needed to draw reliable behavioral inferences from archaeological data. In this study, data from four settlement types (permanent villages, forest hamlets, seasonal hamlets, and foraging camps) of a forager-farmer population in southwestern Madagascar are examined from an archaeological perspective. Doing so shows that house size, house post diameter variability, outdoor wo…
Constructing Mikea Identity: Past or Present Links to Forest and Foraging
Cultural identity is flexible, rich, and often debated, shaped by local and larger contexts. In this article we explore some of the complexity and diversity of how Mikea identity is constructed, particularly by those who identify themselves as such. The Mikea of southwestern Madagascar are associated with the forest and foraging and contrasted with Vezo fishers and Masikoro agropastoralists, yet these groups and their economic strategies both int…
When the Wealthy Are Poor: Poverty Explanations and Local Perspectives in Southwestern Madagascar
To reduce poverty, one must understand what poverty means in local contexts. We used focus groups to elicit a "folk model" of poverty from Masikoro, Vezo, and Mikea people in rural southwestern Madagascar and then placed this model in dialogue with four social science models: economic growth, substantivism, mode of production, and livelihoods. The folk model emphasizes household continuity, production of people, and exploitative expropriation by …
Do Risk and Time Experimental Choices Represent Individual Strategies for Coping with Poverty or Conformity to Social Norms: Evidence from Rural Southwestern Madagascar
Eric Schniter and Nathaniel Wilcox comment on Bram Tucker's article, "Do Risk and Time Experimental Choices Represent Individual Strategies for Coping with Poverty or Conformity to Social Norms? Evidence from Rural Southwestern Madagascar", which "revisits a debate played out in Current Anthropology as to whether subsistence decisions are the result of individual strategy to cope with poverty and increase wealth... or conformity to social norms
Applying Behavioral Ecology and Behavioral Economics to Conservation and Development Planning: An Example from the Mikea Forest, Madagascar
Inequalities beyond the Gini: Subsistence, social structure, gender, and markets in southwestern Madagascar
Development economists typically apply the same measures of inequality to the Global South as capitalist economies, such as Gini coefficients calculated over cash earnings (income) or asset value (wealth). Yet many rural peoples straddle the market economy of cash and wages and the nonmarket economy of gifts and obligations. We examine inequality in the context of Masikoro farmers, Mikea forager-farmers, and Vezo marine fishers of rural southwest…
Perception of Interannual Covariation and Strategies for Risk Reduction among Mikea of Madagascar: Individual and Social Learning
The Human Behavioral Ecology of Contemporary World Issues: Applications to Public Policy and International Development
What does economic anthropology have to contribute to studies of risk and resilience: Studies of Risk and Resilience
The 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, held in Athens, Georgia, brought together speakers and poster presenters around the theme of risk and resilience. In this introduction to the corresponding issue of Economic Anthropology, we briefly summarize the landscape of past approaches to risk and resilience to situate the nine papers in this issue. These papers represent three themes: (1) how persons and communities with lim…
Où vivre sans boire revisited: Water and political-economic change among Mikea hunter-gatherers of southwestern Madagascar
In this article, I present a political-ecological history of the Mikea Forest of southwestern Madagascar, and of the Mikea people, anchored in four water-themed moments: 1966, with the publication of one of the first ethnographic descriptions of Mikea, Où vivre sans boire, "where they live without drinking"; 1998, when Mikea combined foraging with swidden maize agriculture and traveled long distances to get their water; 2003, when a Joint Commiss…
Archaeology, ethnography, and geosciences reveal central role of traditional lifeways in shaping Madagascar's dry forests
Many communities in southwestern Madagascar rely on a mix of foraging, fishing, farming, and herding, with cattle central to local cultures, rituals, and intergenerational wealth transfer. Today these livelihoods are critically threatened by the intensifying effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. Improved understanding of ancient community-environment dynamics can help identify pathways to livelihood sustainability. Multidisciplinary ap…
Ethnic Markers without Ethnic Conflict: Why do Interdependent Masikoro, Mikea, and Vezo of Madagascar Signal their Ethnic Differences
Beyond Mean and Variance: Economic Risk Versus Perceived Risk of Farming, Foraging, and Fishing Activities in Southwestern Madagascar
Risk-senstive adaptive tactics: Models and evidence from subsistence studies in biology and anthropology
Earthquake risk management pilot project in Quito, Ecuador
Constructing Mikea Identity: Past or Present Links to Forest and Foraging
Cultural identity is flexible, rich, and often debated, shaped by local and larger contexts. In this article we explore some of the complexity and diversity of how Mikea identity is constructed, particularly by those who identify themselves as such. The Mikea of southwestern Madagascar are associated with the forest and foraging and contrasted with Vezo fishers and Masikoro agropastoralists, yet these groups and their economic strategies both int…
An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Mobility, Architectural Investment, and Food Sharing among Madagascar's Mikea
Ethnoarchaeology is a field of study that aims to provide the information needed to draw reliable behavioral inferences from archaeological data. In this study, data from four settlement types (permanent villages, forest hamlets, seasonal hamlets, and foraging camps) of a forager-farmer population in southwestern Madagascar are examined from an archaeological perspective. Doing so shows that house size, house post diameter variability, outdoor wo…
Perception of Interannual Covariation and Strategies for Risk Reduction among Mikea of Madagascar: Individual and Social Learning
Applying Behavioral Ecology and Behavioral Economics to Conservation and Development Planning: An Example from the Mikea Forest, Madagascar
The Human Behavioral Ecology of Contemporary World Issues: Applications to Public Policy and International Development
Foraging for Development: A Comparison of Food Insecurity, Production, and Risk among Farmers, Forest Foragers, and Marine Foragers in Southwestern Madagascar
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Bram Tucker, MR. Tsimitamby, Frances Humber, Sophie Benbow, Taku Iida; Foraging for Development: A Comparison of Food Insecurity, Production, and Risk among Farmers, Forest Foragers, and Marine Foragers in Southwestern Madagascar. Human O…
When the Wealthy Are Poor: Poverty Explanations and Local Perspectives in Southwestern Madagascar
To reduce poverty, one must understand what poverty means in local contexts. We used focus groups to elicit a "folk model" of poverty from Masikoro, Vezo, and Mikea people in rural southwestern Madagascar and then placed this model in dialogue with four social science models: economic growth, substantivism, mode of production, and livelihoods. The folk model emphasizes household continuity, production of people, and exploitative expropriation by …
Do Risk and Time Experimental Choices Represent Individual Strategies for Coping with Poverty or Conformity to Social Norms: Evidence from Rural Southwestern Madagascar
Eric Schniter and Nathaniel Wilcox comment on Bram Tucker's article, "Do Risk and Time Experimental Choices Represent Individual Strategies for Coping with Poverty or Conformity to Social Norms? Evidence from Rural Southwestern Madagascar", which "revisits a debate played out in Current Anthropology as to whether subsistence decisions are the result of individual strategy to cope with poverty and increase wealth... or conformity to social norms
Beyond Mean and Variance: Economic Risk Versus Perceived Risk of Farming, Foraging, and Fishing Activities in Southwestern Madagascar
Inequalities beyond the Gini: Subsistence, social structure, gender, and markets in southwestern Madagascar
Development economists typically apply the same measures of inequality to the Global South as capitalist economies, such as Gini coefficients calculated over cash earnings (income) or asset value (wealth). Yet many rural peoples straddle the market economy of cash and wages and the nonmarket economy of gifts and obligations. We examine inequality in the context of Masikoro farmers, Mikea forager-farmers, and Vezo marine fishers of rural southwest…
Economic Anthropology
economics, ecology, geography, and history.In 2017, Economic Anthropology doubled its annual publication list from one to two: a theme-based issue pegged to our annual conference, and a new Open Submission issue representing a wide variety of research engaged with
An ecosystem approach to explaining religious diversity: Why, how, and what
In the target article Wilson and colleagues offer a general theoretical framework meant to advance our understanding of the adaptive nature of religion beyond specific cases, functional adaptations
What does economic anthropology have to contribute to studies of risk and resilience: Studies of Risk and Resilience
The 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, held in Athens, Georgia, brought together speakers and poster presenters around the theme of risk and resilience. In this introduction to the corresponding issue of Economic Anthropology, we briefly summarize the landscape of past approaches to risk and resilience to situate the nine papers in this issue. These papers represent three themes: (1) how persons and communities with lim…
New Dissertation Research Award for Economic Anthropologists
Frank Marlowe
Où vivre sans boire revisited: Water and political-economic change among Mikea hunter-gatherers of southwestern Madagascar
In this article, I present a political-ecological history of the Mikea Forest of southwestern Madagascar, and of the Mikea people, anchored in four water-themed moments: 1966, with the publication of one of the first ethnographic descriptions of Mikea, Où vivre sans boire, "where they live without drinking"; 1998, when Mikea combined foraging with swidden maize agriculture and traveled long distances to get their water; 2003, when a Joint Commiss…
Ethnic Markers without Ethnic Conflict: Why do Interdependent Masikoro, Mikea, and Vezo of Madagascar Signal their Ethnic Differences
Archaeology, ethnography, and geosciences reveal central role of traditional lifeways in shaping Madagascar's dry forests
Many communities in southwestern Madagascar rely on a mix of foraging, fishing, farming, and herding, with cattle central to local cultures, rituals, and intergenerational wealth transfer. Today these livelihoods are critically threatened by the intensifying effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. Improved understanding of ancient community-environment dynamics can help identify pathways to livelihood sustainability. Multidisciplinary ap…
Sociology (12 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Biology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Foraging (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works)