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Nancy Levine

Professor

Department: Anthropology

UCLA Department of Anthropology
335 Haines Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553
Campus mailcode: 155303
Tel: 310-825-2134
Fax: 310-206-7833
nelevine@anthro.ucla.edu
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Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, China, India, Tibet


SUBFIELD

Socio-Cultural Anthropology 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Rochester 1978

RESEARCH INTERESTS


Kinship and domestic economy, demography, social change, gender; Tibet and Central Asia. 
   

PUBLICATIONS


1987 Differential Child Care in Three Tibetan Communities: Beyond Son Preference. Population and Development Review. 13(2).

1987 Caste, State and Ethnic Boundaries in Nepal. Journal of Asian Studies 46:71-88.

1988 The Dynamics of Polyandry. University of Chicago Press.

1997 with J. Silk. Why Polyandry Fails: Sources of Instability in Polyandrous Marriages. Current Anthropology 38:375-398.

1999 Cattle and the Cash Economy: Responses to Change Among Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralists. Human Organization 58:161-172.


 

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