Anthropology, Department of http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/51534 2013-05-26T03:15:56Z History, marriage politics, and demographic events in the central Himalaya http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91978 History, marriage politics, and demographic events in the central Himalaya Fricke, Tom This chapter explores the micro-politics of marriage practices among a Tamang and Ghale population in north central Nepal. Based on ethnographic and survey research in Timling (Tipling), it establishes that marriage practices are related to clan hierarchies and follow a logic that maintains those hierarchies. It then establishes the implications of that logic for marriage ages and age at first birth. 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Studying West River: North Dakota Field Letters http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91306 Studying West River: North Dakota Field Letters Fricke, Tom A series of vignettes detailing everyday life among farmers and ranchers in western North Dakota. From ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2000. Detailing ranching and farming life. 2001-06-01T00:00:00Z Working Selves, Moral Selves: Crafting the Good person in the Northern Plains http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91305 Working Selves, Moral Selves: Crafting the Good person in the Northern Plains Fricke, Tom This paper explores transformations in ideas of the good person as family member and worker, across generations and in the context of certain loss. The themes addressed include the moral sources of personhood in place, family, and work. Primary material comes from the contemporary everyday life a farm family and its continuity with the founding stories of ancestors who arrived at the turn of the 20th century. A later version of this working paper appears in Elizabeth Rudd and Lara Descartes (eds.), 2008, The Changing landscape of Work and Family in the american Middle Class: Reports from the Field. New York: Lexington Books, pp. 17-39. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Marriage, Household cycles, and the maintenance of Equality Among the Tamang of North Central Nepal http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91303 Marriage, Household cycles, and the maintenance of Equality Among the Tamang of North Central Nepal Fricke, Tom This article examines the role of marriage and intergenerational practices of alliance in the maintenance of social equality and reciprocity among the Tamang of Nepal. Ethnographic and survey fieldwork in Tipling (Timling) form the case study data for this analysis. 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z