Nancy E Levine

PROFESSOR

Ph.D., Rochester 1978

(Chair, General Campus Institutional Review Board of OPRS)

Class Websites

Office: 385 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-825-2134
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: nelevine@anthro.ucla.edu

Mailing Address:

Subfield

Socio-Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests

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

Selected 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.

2008 Alternative Kinship, Marriage, and Reproduction. Annual Review of Anthropology, 37:375–89

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