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<p>The article discusses family transitions and the practice of bride-service in the upper Ankhu Khola of Nepal. This article tries to bridge the gap through a theory-driven analysis of change in family-organized cooperative behaviors among the Tamang of a single village. It focuses on the practice of husbands providing labor services to their wives families after marriage. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-03-02)</p>
<p>The article discusses fertility and its determinants in a Tamang village of north central Nepal. The study is based on the data collected of 150 Tamang women in the village of Timling. The article analyzes the fertility information from these women and an examination of the proximate determinants. It includes a map of Timling and its daughter villages. The study indicates that methodologies designed for application to much larger data sets can be effectively used for community level analysis. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-02-01)</p>
<p>The article examines the maintenance of equality among an agro-pastoral people of north central Nepal. It does so by first showing how household processes are a function of demographic processes and culturally structured behavior. The possibilities for ramifying differentials across generations are then examined, by showing how marriage timing is itself a strategic decision with consequences for women's fertility and their household developmental cycles. The largest context of these decisions is looked at through some patrilineal histories and the pattern of marriages and household development these engendered. The study is based on the Tamang population. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-02-09)</p>
<p>The article reviews significant findings from over 15 years of research on the culture of fertility and family transitions in two Tamang communities of Nepal. The data sources include both qualitative ethnography and quantitative survey materials collected from the collaborative Tamang family research project. The major findings indicate that behavioral transitions in family and childbearing patterns are closely associated with changing economic contexts away from earlier subsistence production to increasing involvement in the monetized economy. More recently, research has further indicated the beginnings of transitions in the cultural contexts of family and identity. The authors suggest that the moral entailments of Tamang patterns of meaning are the key to variations in behavior in response to changing material conditions.</p>