Nancy E Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy E Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy E |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE N E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kinship and the State in Tibet and Its Borderlands
Practical Kinship
This paper assesses enduring values and on-going changes in kin relationships among eastern Tibetan pastoralists. A key finding is the importance of sibling ties, an aspect of kinship life that was overshadowed by earlier historical and anthropological concerns with clans and tribes. The paper begins by reviewing accounts drawn from premodern times, the problematic terms in which these accounts were couched and some of the presuppositions guiding…
A multifaceted interdependence. Tibetan pastoralists and their animals
Cet article discute des relations à facettes multiples entre les pasteurs nomades tibétains des provinces du Sichuan et Qinghai et leurs animaux domestiques. Il montre la façon dont ces pasteurs nomades organisent leur vie autour de leurs animaux et trouvent un équilibre, d’une part, entre les besoins de leur maisonnée et leurs capacités de travail et, d’autre part, les besoins de leurs animaux en matière de soins, dans le but d’arriver à une sym…
Transforming inequality
This paper traces the recent history and major political and economic transformations that eastern Tibetan pastoralists have experienced from traditional times to the present and examines how changing rights over land and domestic animals have affected patterns of economic and social inequality in this population. Ethnographic data and responses to household surveys conducted in Sichuan and Gansu Provinces in China support the finding that the di…
God of Justice
Alternative Kinship, Marriage, and Reproduction
This review examines the implications of new kinship practices for anthropological theory, with a special focus on recent research in gay and lesbian kinship and assisted reproduction. The article begins with an account of the theoretical contexts in which kinship studies have been conducted and a brief survey of some of the older literature on alternative systems of marriage and family formation in preindustrial and modern societies. The emphasi…
Cattle and the Cash Economy
This paper discusses how Tibetan pastoralists living in Sichuan Province, China, have responded to recent state-initiated economic reforms. Individual households have increased their involvements in the new market economy, although the nature and extent of those involvements have been conditioned by local resource availability and proximity to markets. People have begun purchasing a varied array of modern consumption goods, they have increased th…
Anthropological Demography
The chapters in this volume are substantially revised versions of papers originally presented at the Brown University Conference on Anthropological Demography November 3-5 1994.... This volume is motivated by a sense that the time is ripe for a reconsideration and renewal of past achievements together with the development of a new synthesis in the relationship between anthropology and demography.... The contributions take various and not always r…
Why Polyandry Fails
Polyandry has long been viewed as an anomalous form of marriage that raises fundamental questions about variability in human kinship systems. This paper integrates and evaluates a set of hypotheses derived from sociocultural anthropological and evolutionary biological theories of polyandry against data collected on the Nyinba, a well‐studied ethnically Tibetan population living in northwestern Nepal. In this population, polyandry is fraternal; it…
The future of kinship studies
Hewlett, Barry S., ed. Father‐Child Relations: Cultural and Biosocial Contexts. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. xix + 376 pp. including indices. $59.95 cloth. Strathern, Marilyn. Reproducing the Future: Essays on Anthropology, Kinship and the New Reproductive Technologies. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992. viii + 200 pp. including references and index. $49.95 cloth, $15.95 paper
The Dynamics of Polyandry
Women's Work and Infant Feeding
Data from field research conducted in Humla a mountainous district of northwest Nepal and 1 of the poorest regions in that country were used as a basis to facilitate understanding of how women accommodate the burden of heavy work and child care responsibilities in an effort to provide a fuller perspective on the widespread transition to bottle feeding in modern urban societies in recent decades. In Humla men leave their homes for months at a time…
Himalayan Households
Differential Child Care in Three Tibetan Communities
This article examines the cultural and social-structural factors associated with assessments of child value patterns of differential child care and child survival among ethnic Tibetans in northwest Nepal. Factors implicated in this assessment include not only sex biases but also child sibling position parents marital stability child legitimacy and the state of the household economy. These patterns may be susceptible to change without altering tra…
Caste, State, and Ethnic Boundaries in Nepal
Models of ethnicity in Nepal stress, on the one hand, unlimited ethnic diversity and, on the other, a rather limited set of ethnic contrasts: Hindu versus Buddhist, tribe versus caste, mountain versus middle hills versus lowland Terai. However, ethnic relations in Humla District, in Nepal's far northwest Karnali Zone, are characterized more by interaction, interdependence, and mobility than contrasts and boundaries between groups.1In Humla, indiv…
Fathers and Sons
The assumption that men invariably place their first priorities with their own, over siblings', children, is a long-standing one and informs, for example, discussions of matrilineal and joint family systems. Fraternal polyandry as practised by ethnic Tibetans in northwest Nepal, however, counters this view. Here men do not necessarily seek the advantage of children they believe to be their own. Rather their principal concerns lie with socially va…
Family dynamics in cross‐disciplinary perspective
Medick, Hans, and David Warren Sabean, eds. Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xi + 417 pp. including index. $59.50 cloth
Belief and Explanation in Nyinba Women's Witchcraft
The Tibetan Nyinba in nrorthwestern Nepal hold beliefs about witchcraft based on the assumption that it is inherently a female phenomenon. This article focuses on the analysis of these beliefs, their underlying logic, cultural sources and social consequences. Ideas about witchcraft constitute, at one level, explanatory theories which have a bearing upon problematic aspects of interpersonal interaction and are sensitive to what we might term socia…
Nyinba Polyandry and the Allocation of Paternity
Fraternal polyandry among the Nyinba, an ethnic group of Tibetan cultural affiliation, is part of a unitary marital system. All men are regarded as husbands to their common wife and all expect to have children by her. Whereas the rights and duties associated with fatherhood may be characterized as joint in some contexts, they are clearly differentiated in others-as determined by the paternity of the children. The attribution of distinctive patern…
Ethnology
Conclusion
This conclusion summarizes themes central to the papers collected in this volume-the definitional characteristics of polyandry, the relative status of women, as well as the political, economic and psychological concommitants of polyandrous systems of marriage- and attempts to account for biases which have hindered the study of these subjects in the past. As a first step in comparative analysis, a fourfold classification of types of polyandry, in …
Women's Work and Infant Feeding
Data from field research conducted in Humla a mountainous district of northwest Nepal and 1 of the poorest regions in that country were used as a basis to facilitate understanding of how women accommodate the burden of heavy work and child care responsibilities in an effort to provide a fuller perspective on the widespread transition to bottle feeding in modern urban societies in recent decades. In Humla men leave their homes for months at a time…
Differential Child Care in Three Tibetan Communities
This article examines the cultural and social-structural factors associated with assessments of child value patterns of differential child care and child survival among ethnic Tibetans in northwest Nepal. Factors implicated in this assessment include not only sex biases but also child sibling position parents marital stability child legitimacy and the state of the household economy. These patterns may be susceptible to change without altering tra…
Caste, State, and Ethnic Boundaries in Nepal
Models of ethnicity in Nepal stress, on the one hand, unlimited ethnic diversity and, on the other, a rather limited set of ethnic contrasts: Hindu versus Buddhist, tribe versus caste, mountain versus middle hills versus lowland Terai. However, ethnic relations in Humla District, in Nepal's far northwest Karnali Zone, are characterized more by interaction, interdependence, and mobility than contrasts and boundaries between groups.1In Humla, indiv…
Belief and Explanation in Nyinba Women's Witchcraft
The Tibetan Nyinba in nrorthwestern Nepal hold beliefs about witchcraft based on the assumption that it is inherently a female phenomenon. This article focuses on the analysis of these beliefs, their underlying logic, cultural sources and social consequences. Ideas about witchcraft constitute, at one level, explanatory theories which have a bearing upon problematic aspects of interpersonal interaction and are sensitive to what we might term socia…
Transforming inequality
This paper traces the recent history and major political and economic transformations that eastern Tibetan pastoralists have experienced from traditional times to the present and examines how changing rights over land and domestic animals have affected patterns of economic and social inequality in this population. Ethnographic data and responses to household surveys conducted in Sichuan and Gansu Provinces in China support the finding that the di…
Fathers and Sons
The assumption that men invariably place their first priorities with their own, over siblings', children, is a long-standing one and informs, for example, discussions of matrilineal and joint family systems. Fraternal polyandry as practised by ethnic Tibetans in northwest Nepal, however, counters this view. Here men do not necessarily seek the advantage of children they believe to be their own. Rather their principal concerns lie with socially va…
Conclusion
This conclusion summarizes themes central to the papers collected in this volume-the definitional characteristics of polyandry, the relative status of women, as well as the political, economic and psychological concommitants of polyandrous systems of marriage- and attempts to account for biases which have hindered the study of these subjects in the past. As a first step in comparative analysis, a fourfold classification of types of polyandry, in …
Cattle and the Cash Economy
This paper discusses how Tibetan pastoralists living in Sichuan Province, China, have responded to recent state-initiated economic reforms. Individual households have increased their involvements in the new market economy, although the nature and extent of those involvements have been conditioned by local resource availability and proximity to markets. People have begun purchasing a varied array of modern consumption goods, they have increased th…
Kinship and the State in Tibet and Its Borderlands
Nyinba Polyandry and the Allocation of Paternity
Fraternal polyandry among the Nyinba, an ethnic group of Tibetan cultural affiliation, is part of a unitary marital system. All men are regarded as husbands to their common wife and all expect to have children by her. Whereas the rights and duties associated with fatherhood may be characterized as joint in some contexts, they are clearly differentiated in others-as determined by the paternity of the children. The attribution of distinctive patern…
Ethnology
Conclusion
This conclusion summarizes themes central to the papers collected in this volume-the definitional characteristics of polyandry, the relative status of women, as well as the political, economic and psychological concommitants of polyandrous systems of marriage- and attempts to account for biases which have hindered the study of these subjects in the past. As a first step in comparative analysis, a fourfold classification of types of polyandry, in …
Belief and Explanation in Nyinba Women's Witchcraft
The Tibetan Nyinba in nrorthwestern Nepal hold beliefs about witchcraft based on the assumption that it is inherently a female phenomenon. This article focuses on the analysis of these beliefs, their underlying logic, cultural sources and social consequences. Ideas about witchcraft constitute, at one level, explanatory theories which have a bearing upon problematic aspects of interpersonal interaction and are sensitive to what we might term socia…
Family dynamics in cross‐disciplinary perspective
Medick, Hans, and David Warren Sabean, eds. Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xi + 417 pp. including index. $59.50 cloth
Himalayan Households
Differential Child Care in Three Tibetan Communities
This article examines the cultural and social-structural factors associated with assessments of child value patterns of differential child care and child survival among ethnic Tibetans in northwest Nepal. Factors implicated in this assessment include not only sex biases but also child sibling position parents marital stability child legitimacy and the state of the household economy. These patterns may be susceptible to change without altering tra…
Caste, State, and Ethnic Boundaries in Nepal
Models of ethnicity in Nepal stress, on the one hand, unlimited ethnic diversity and, on the other, a rather limited set of ethnic contrasts: Hindu versus Buddhist, tribe versus caste, mountain versus middle hills versus lowland Terai. However, ethnic relations in Humla District, in Nepal's far northwest Karnali Zone, are characterized more by interaction, interdependence, and mobility than contrasts and boundaries between groups.1In Humla, indiv…
Fathers and Sons
The assumption that men invariably place their first priorities with their own, over siblings', children, is a long-standing one and informs, for example, discussions of matrilineal and joint family systems. Fraternal polyandry as practised by ethnic Tibetans in northwest Nepal, however, counters this view. Here men do not necessarily seek the advantage of children they believe to be their own. Rather their principal concerns lie with socially va…
Women's Work and Infant Feeding
Data from field research conducted in Humla a mountainous district of northwest Nepal and 1 of the poorest regions in that country were used as a basis to facilitate understanding of how women accommodate the burden of heavy work and child care responsibilities in an effort to provide a fuller perspective on the widespread transition to bottle feeding in modern urban societies in recent decades. In Humla men leave their homes for months at a time…
The Dynamics of Polyandry
The future of kinship studies
Hewlett, Barry S., ed. Father‐Child Relations: Cultural and Biosocial Contexts. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. xix + 376 pp. including indices. $59.95 cloth. Strathern, Marilyn. Reproducing the Future: Essays on Anthropology, Kinship and the New Reproductive Technologies. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992. viii + 200 pp. including references and index. $49.95 cloth, $15.95 paper
Why Polyandry Fails
Polyandry has long been viewed as an anomalous form of marriage that raises fundamental questions about variability in human kinship systems. This paper integrates and evaluates a set of hypotheses derived from sociocultural anthropological and evolutionary biological theories of polyandry against data collected on the Nyinba, a well‐studied ethnically Tibetan population living in northwestern Nepal. In this population, polyandry is fraternal; it…
Anthropological Demography
The chapters in this volume are substantially revised versions of papers originally presented at the Brown University Conference on Anthropological Demography November 3-5 1994.... This volume is motivated by a sense that the time is ripe for a reconsideration and renewal of past achievements together with the development of a new synthesis in the relationship between anthropology and demography.... The contributions take various and not always r…
Cattle and the Cash Economy
This paper discusses how Tibetan pastoralists living in Sichuan Province, China, have responded to recent state-initiated economic reforms. Individual households have increased their involvements in the new market economy, although the nature and extent of those involvements have been conditioned by local resource availability and proximity to markets. People have begun purchasing a varied array of modern consumption goods, they have increased th…
Alternative Kinship, Marriage, and Reproduction
This review examines the implications of new kinship practices for anthropological theory, with a special focus on recent research in gay and lesbian kinship and assisted reproduction. The article begins with an account of the theoretical contexts in which kinship studies have been conducted and a brief survey of some of the older literature on alternative systems of marriage and family formation in preindustrial and modern societies. The emphasi…
God of Justice
Transforming inequality
This paper traces the recent history and major political and economic transformations that eastern Tibetan pastoralists have experienced from traditional times to the present and examines how changing rights over land and domestic animals have affected patterns of economic and social inequality in this population. Ethnographic data and responses to household surveys conducted in Sichuan and Gansu Provinces in China support the finding that the di…
A multifaceted interdependence. Tibetan pastoralists and their animals
Cet article discute des relations à facettes multiples entre les pasteurs nomades tibétains des provinces du Sichuan et Qinghai et leurs animaux domestiques. Il montre la façon dont ces pasteurs nomades organisent leur vie autour de leurs animaux et trouvent un équilibre, d’une part, entre les besoins de leur maisonnée et leurs capacités de travail et, d’autre part, les besoins de leurs animaux en matière de soins, dans le but d’arriver à une sym…
Kinship and the State in Tibet and Its Borderlands
Practical Kinship
This paper assesses enduring values and on-going changes in kin relationships among eastern Tibetan pastoralists. A key finding is the importance of sibling ties, an aspect of kinship life that was overshadowed by earlier historical and anthropological concerns with clans and tribes. The paper begins by reviewing accounts drawn from premodern times, the problematic terms in which these accounts were couched and some of the presuppositions guiding…
Sociology (18 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Kinship (9 works) · History (8 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (7 works) · Genealogy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (6 works)