Tom E. Fricke
Affiliated Programs:
Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life (CEEL)
Funded Research:
Reciprocal Relations Between Population and Environment (NICHD)
Research Professor, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Professor, Anthropology, University of Michigan.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Dr. Fricke's interests include anthropological demography, social change, and the family and fertility in Nepal and South and East Asia. His current research projects include a study of economy, family change, and fertility in Nepal; an analysis of social organization, women's status, and the marital context of fertility among the Tamang of Nepal; and work on social change, the family and fertility in Taiwan.
Recent Publications
Books
Fricke, Tom E. 1994. Himalayan Households: Tamang Demography and Domestic Processes. Columbia University Press. Abstract.
Journal Articles
Hoey, B.A., and Tom E. Fricke. 2007. "From sweet potatoes to God Almight - Roy Rappaport on being hedgehog." American Ethnologist, 34(3): 581-599. DOI:10.1525/ae.2007.34.3.581. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Fricke, Tom E. 2006. "Mystery and Manners: A Conversation with Robert Coles." Michigan Quarterly Review, 45(1): 7-26.
Fricke, Tom E. 2006. "Imagining Yhebe: Of friendship and the field." Michigan Quarterly Review, 45(1): 197-217.
Chapters
Fricke, Tom E. 2005. "Taking culture seriously : making the social survey ethnographic." In Discovering successful pathways in children's development: mixed methods in the study of childhood and family life edited by Thomas S Weisner. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.
PSC blog
Recent resources, events, news
New Publications
Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"
Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report
Next Brown Bag
Tues, Dec 1
Arland Thornton & Barb Koremenos
Mobilizing for Human Rights
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