Tom Fricke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Fricke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Fricke |
| SIGNATURE | FRICKE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From sweet potatoes to God Almighty
Recognized as a principal figure in ecological anthropology, Roy Rappaport is best known for his study Pigs for the Ancestors (1968). His work in the anthropology of religion has received less attention. Least acknowledged is Rappaport's role in defining an "engaged" anthropology. Drawn from interviews Tom Fricke conducted with Rappaport in the year before his death in October 1997, this article gives insight into these three facets of his profes…
Culture and Causality
Anthropology's unique contribution to a discussion of causality is rooted in its specialization in culture rather than in methodological protocols for bolstering our confidence in correlations. This is so because causal arguments are inherently interpretive and, moreover, because human actors themselves operate in terms of meaning. The best interpretive models direct analytic attention to contexts of meaning and motivation. Because these meanings…
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…
Anthropological Demography
Netting in Nepal
The Uses of Culture in Demographic Research
FOR A CULTURAL anthropologist, one of the most promising developments in demography over the last 20 years has been the demise of its once guiding paradigm, classic demographic transition theory. Wielding the hammers that drove the nails into its coffin were demographers themselves, writing in the summary volume of the Princeton study of European fertility transitions. Comments on that study by John Knodel and Etienne van de Walle, Susan Watkins,…
Community Context, Women's Natal Kin Ties, and Demand for Children
Recent research in many areas of social demography has begun to address the implications of cultural, social, and economic context for individual-level preferences and behavior. We expand on this theme by arguing that multiple levels of context may simultaneously direct individual-level strategies. We focus on the relationship between women's natal kin ties and their demand for children, a substantive area in which context is thought to be partic…
Writing the names
Using data from a Nepali population, this analysis argues that marriage style and postmarital living arrangements affect coital frequency to produce variations in the timing of first birth after marriage. Event history analysis of the first birth interval for 149 women suggests that women’s autonomy in marriage decisions and marriage to cross-cousins accelerate the pace of entry into first birth. Extended-household residence with reduced natal ki…
The Family Contexts of Marriage Timing in Nepal
Marriage in most societies constitutes one of the primary transitions in a person's life course. Its significance is heightened by including the interests of networks beyond the couple in societies organized by kinship. Because marriage can carry multivalent meanings for individuals and groups joined by it in these settings, it has been identified as a key moment in the reproduction of social relations incorporating hierarchy, exchange, and domes…
Marriage, Social Inequality, and Women's Contact with Their Natal Families in Alliance Societies
Anthropological and other approaches to women's natal kin links demonstrate a relationship between these linkages and the reproduction of social inequality, in addition to noting implications for the social standing of women themselves. Few studies have, however, dynamically considered the simultaneous dimensions of individual history, community context, and interfamilial politics influencing such contact. Using data from two Tamang communities i…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Writing the names
Using data from a Nepali population, this analysis argues that marriage style and postmarital living arrangements affect coital frequency to produce variations in the timing of first birth after marriage. Event history analysis of the first birth interval for 149 women suggests that women’s autonomy in marriage decisions and marriage to cross-cousins accelerate the pace of entry into first birth. Extended-household residence with reduced natal ki…
From sweet potatoes to God Almighty
Recognized as a principal figure in ecological anthropology, Roy Rappaport is best known for his study Pigs for the Ancestors (1968). His work in the anthropology of religion has received less attention. Least acknowledged is Rappaport's role in defining an "engaged" anthropology. Drawn from interviews Tom Fricke conducted with Rappaport in the year before his death in October 1997, this article gives insight into these three facets of his profes…
The Uses of Culture in Demographic Research
FOR A CULTURAL anthropologist, one of the most promising developments in demography over the last 20 years has been the demise of its once guiding paradigm, classic demographic transition theory. Wielding the hammers that drove the nails into its coffin were demographers themselves, writing in the summary volume of the Princeton study of European fertility transitions. Comments on that study by John Knodel and Etienne van de Walle, Susan Watkins,…
Marriage, Social Inequality, and Women's Contact with Their Natal Families in Alliance Societies
Anthropological and other approaches to women's natal kin links demonstrate a relationship between these linkages and the reproduction of social inequality, in addition to noting implications for the social standing of women themselves. Few studies have, however, dynamically considered the simultaneous dimensions of individual history, community context, and interfamilial politics influencing such contact. Using data from two Tamang communities i…
Culture and Causality
Anthropology's unique contribution to a discussion of causality is rooted in its specialization in culture rather than in methodological protocols for bolstering our confidence in correlations. This is so because causal arguments are inherently interpretive and, moreover, because human actors themselves operate in terms of meaning. The best interpretive models direct analytic attention to contexts of meaning and motivation. Because these meanings…
Community Context, Women's Natal Kin Ties, and Demand for Children
Recent research in many areas of social demography has begun to address the implications of cultural, social, and economic context for individual-level preferences and behavior. We expand on this theme by arguing that multiple levels of context may simultaneously direct individual-level strategies. We focus on the relationship between women's natal kin ties and their demand for children, a substantive area in which context is thought to be partic…
Netting in Nepal
The Family Contexts of Marriage Timing in Nepal
Marriage in most societies constitutes one of the primary transitions in a person's life course. Its significance is heightened by including the interests of networks beyond the couple in societies organized by kinship. Because marriage can carry multivalent meanings for individuals and groups joined by it in these settings, it has been identified as a key moment in the reproduction of social relations incorporating hierarchy, exchange, and domes…
Anthropological Demography
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Writing the names
Using data from a Nepali population, this analysis argues that marriage style and postmarital living arrangements affect coital frequency to produce variations in the timing of first birth after marriage. Event history analysis of the first birth interval for 149 women suggests that women’s autonomy in marriage decisions and marriage to cross-cousins accelerate the pace of entry into first birth. Extended-household residence with reduced natal ki…
The Family Contexts of Marriage Timing in Nepal
Marriage in most societies constitutes one of the primary transitions in a person's life course. Its significance is heightened by including the interests of networks beyond the couple in societies organized by kinship. Because marriage can carry multivalent meanings for individuals and groups joined by it in these settings, it has been identified as a key moment in the reproduction of social relations incorporating hierarchy, exchange, and domes…
Marriage, Social Inequality, and Women's Contact with Their Natal Families in Alliance Societies
Anthropological and other approaches to women's natal kin links demonstrate a relationship between these linkages and the reproduction of social inequality, in addition to noting implications for the social standing of women themselves. Few studies have, however, dynamically considered the simultaneous dimensions of individual history, community context, and interfamilial politics influencing such contact. Using data from two Tamang communities i…
Community Context, Women's Natal Kin Ties, and Demand for Children
Recent research in many areas of social demography has begun to address the implications of cultural, social, and economic context for individual-level preferences and behavior. We expand on this theme by arguing that multiple levels of context may simultaneously direct individual-level strategies. We focus on the relationship between women's natal kin ties and their demand for children, a substantive area in which context is thought to be partic…
The Uses of Culture in Demographic Research
FOR A CULTURAL anthropologist, one of the most promising developments in demography over the last 20 years has been the demise of its once guiding paradigm, classic demographic transition theory. Wielding the hammers that drove the nails into its coffin were demographers themselves, writing in the summary volume of the Princeton study of European fertility transitions. Comments on that study by John Knodel and Etienne van de Walle, Susan Watkins,…
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…
Anthropological Demography
Netting in Nepal
Culture and Causality
Anthropology's unique contribution to a discussion of causality is rooted in its specialization in culture rather than in methodological protocols for bolstering our confidence in correlations. This is so because causal arguments are inherently interpretive and, moreover, because human actors themselves operate in terms of meaning. The best interpretive models direct analytic attention to contexts of meaning and motivation. Because these meanings…
From sweet potatoes to God Almighty
Recognized as a principal figure in ecological anthropology, Roy Rappaport is best known for his study Pigs for the Ancestors (1968). His work in the anthropology of religion has received less attention. Least acknowledged is Rappaport's role in defining an "engaged" anthropology. Drawn from interviews Tom Fricke conducted with Rappaport in the year before his death in October 1997, this article gives insight into these three facets of his profes…
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