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University of Georgia: Athens, Georgia, US

2005-08-01 to present | Associate Professor (Anthropology)
Employment
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Bram Tucker

Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, US

2002-08-15 to 2005-06-15 | Assistant Professor (Anthropology)
Employment
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Bram Tucker

Education and qualifications (2)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US

1994-08-15 to 2001-05-15 | PhD (Anthropology)
Education
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Bram Tucker

Ohio University: Athens, Ohio, US

1991-08-15 to 1994-06-15 | AB (Anthropology)
Education
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Bram Tucker

Professional activities (2)

Society for Economic Anthropology: Arlington, VA, US

2017-11-25 to 2019-11-25 | President
Service
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Bram Tucker

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin eV: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2011-09-15 to 2012-06-12 | Fellow
Invited position
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Bram Tucker

Funding (9)

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Examining Land Tenure change and Wellbeing in Sierra Leone

2020 to 2021 | Grant
National Science Foundation (Alexandria, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

BCS-1948910
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Bram Tucker

Testing Multiple Approaches for Understanding Adaptive Functions of Cultural Institutions

2017-08 to 2024-08 | Grant
National Science Foundation (Alexandria, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

BCS 1733917
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Bram Tucker

Testing models of cultural change through archaeological survey and oral history among Mikea forager-agropastoralists of SW Madagascar

2017 to present | Grant
Wenner-Gren Foundation (New York, US)
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Bram Tucker

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Calculated, Constrained, and Co-Opted Decisions: Explaining Agricultural Behavior of Malawian Farmers in Times of Uncertainty

2012 to present | Grant
National Science Foundation (Alexandria, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

BCS-1227812
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Bram Tucker

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Who Needs the Village? Rural-Urban Linkages and Livelihood Strategies in Tamatave, Madagascar

2011 to present | Grant
National Science Foundation (Alexandria, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

BCS-1124316
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Bram Tucker

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Subjective estimations, probabilities, and subsistence decision-making in Endeh, Flores Island, Indonesia. Is more information better?

2010 to present | Grant
National Science Foundation (Alexandria, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

BCS-1022914
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Bram Tucker

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Social change, livelihoods, and nutritional outcomes among Mikea of southwest Madagascar

2008 to present | Grant
National Science Foundation (Alexandria, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

BCS-0817261
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Bram Tucker

Subsistence decision-making in southwestern Madagascar: Coping with poverty or social learning?

2007-08 to 2009-08 | Grant
National Science Foundation (Alexandria, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

BCS-0650412
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Bram Tucker

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: “‘Unwise Fishers’: Conservation and Customary Law in Coastal Southwest Madagascar

Grant
National Science Foundation (Alexandria, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

BCS-0923860
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Bram Tucker

Works (28)

Modes of Production

Human Behavioral Ecology
2024 | Book chapter
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

Mikea, Malagasy, or hunter-gatherers?

2022-06-29 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.14361/9783839460993-009
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Socioecology shapes child and adolescent time allocation in twelve hunter-gatherer and mixed-subsistence forager societies

Scientific Reports
2022-05-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12217-1
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
Contributors: Sheina Lew-Levy; Rachel Reckin; Stephen M. Kissler; Ilaria Pretelli; Adam H. Boyette; Alyssa N. Crittenden; Renée V. Hagen; Randall Haas; Karen L. Kramer; Jeremy Koster et al.
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Bram Tucker

Ethnic Markers without Ethnic Conflict

Human Nature
2021-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-021-09412-w
Contributors: Bram Tucker; Erik J. Ringen; Tsiazonera; Jaovola Tombo; Patricia Hajasoa; Soanahary Gérard; Rolland Lahiniriko; Angelah Halatiana Garçon
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<i>Où vivre sans boire</i> revisited: Water and political‐economic change among Mikea hunter‐gatherers of southwestern Madagascar

Economic Anthropology
2020-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12160
Part of ISSN: 2330-4847
Part of ISSN: 2330-4847
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

Ecological, historical, and social explanations for low rates of food sharing among Mikea foragers of Southwest Madagascar

Towards a Broader View of Hunter-Gatherer Sharing
2019 | Book chapter
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

From Risk and Time Preferences to Cultural Models of Causality: On the Challenges and Possibilities of Field Experiments, with Examples from Rural Southwestern Madagascar

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation
2017 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51721-6_3
Part of ISBN: 9783319517209
Part of ISBN: 9783319517216
Part of ISSN: 0146-7875
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

Growing Up Mikea

Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods
2017-07-28 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9780203789445-10
Part of ISBN: 9780203789445
Contributors: Bram Tucker; Alyson G. Young
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Bram Tucker

What does economic anthropology have to contribute to studies of risk and resilience?

Economic Anthropology
2017-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12085
Part of ISSN: 2330-4847
Contributors: Bram Tucker; Donald R. Nelson
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Bram Tucker

An ecosystem approach to explaining religious diversity: why, how, and what?

Religion, Brain &amp; Behavior
2017-04-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/2153599x.2015.1132250
Part of ISSN: 2153-599X
Part of ISSN: 2153-5981
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

Ecological and cosmological coexistence thinking in a hypervariable environment: causal models of economic success and failure among farmers, foragers, and fishermen of southwestern Madagascar

Frontiers in Psychology
2015-10-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01533
Part of ISSN: 1664-1078
Contributors: Bram Tucker; Tsiazonera; Jaovola Tombo; Patricia Hajasoa; Charlotte Nagnisaha
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Bram Tucker

Inequalities beyond the Gini: Subsistence, social structure, gender, and markets in southwestern Madagascar

Economic Anthropology
2015-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12034
Part of ISSN: 2330-4847
Part of ISSN: 2330-4847
Contributors: Bram Tucker; Elaina Lill; Tsiazonera; Jaovola Tombo; Rolland Lahiniriko; Louinaise Rasoanomenjanahary; Pirette Miza Razafindravelo; Jean Roger Tsikengo
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Bram Tucker

Rationality and the Green Revolution

Applied Evolutionary Anthropology
2014 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0280-4_2
Part of ISBN: 9781493902798
Part of ISBN: 9781493902804
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

Cultural Ecology

Encyclopedia of Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology
2013 | Book chapter
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

Beyond Mean and Variance: Economic Risk Versus Perceived Risk of Farming, Foraging, and Fishing Activities in Southwestern Madagascar

Human Ecology
2013-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-013-9563-2
Part of ISSN: 0300-7839
Part of ISSN: 1572-9915
Contributors: Bram Tucker; Jaovola Tombo; Tsiazonera; Patricia Hajasoa; Charlotte Nagnisaha; Vorisoa Rene Lahitoka; Christian Zahatsy
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Bram Tucker

Do Risk and Time Experimental Choices Represent Individual Strategies for Coping with Poverty or Conformity to Social Norms?

Current Anthropology
2012-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/664569
Part of ISSN: 0011-3204
Part of ISSN: 1537-5382
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

When the Wealthy Are Poor: Poverty Explanations and Local Perspectives in Southwestern Madagascar

American Anthropologist
2011-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01331.x
Part of ISSN: 0002-7294
Part of ISSN: 1548-1433
Contributors: Bram Tucker; Amber Huff; Tsiazonera; Jaovola Tombo; Patricia Hajasoa; Charlotte Nagnisaha
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Bram Tucker

Interview: Social science and conservation in Madagascar

Madagascar Conservation and Development
2010 | Journal article
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

Foraging for Development: A Comparison of Food Insecurity, Production, and Risk among Farmers, Forest Foragers, and Marine Foragers in Southwestern Madagascar

Human Organization
2010-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.17730/humo.69.4.m1n76k5272632873
Part of ISSN: 0018-7259
Part of ISSN: 1938-3525
Contributors: Bram Tucker; MR. Tsimitamby; Frances Humber; Sophie Benbow; Taku Iida
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Bram Tucker

Applying Behavioral Ecology and Behavioral Economics to Conservation and Development Planning: An Example from the Mikea Forest, Madagascar

Human Nature
2007-09-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-007-9017-x
Part of ISSN: 1045-6767
Part of ISSN: 1936-4776
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

Perception of Interannual Covariation and Strategies for Risk Reduction among Mikea of Madagascar

Human Nature
2007-09-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-007-9007-z
Part of ISSN: 1045-6767
Part of ISSN: 1936-4776
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

The Human Behavioral Ecology of Contemporary World Issues

Human Nature
2007-09-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-007-9013-1
Part of ISSN: 1045-6767
Part of ISSN: 1936-4776
Contributors: Bram Tucker; Lisa Rende Taylor
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Bram Tucker

A future-discounting explanation for the persistence of a mixed foraging/cultivation strategy among the Mikea of Madagascar

Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture
2006 | Book chapter
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Mobility, Architectural Investment, and Food Sharing among Madagascar's Mikea

American Anthropologist
2005-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2005.107.3.403
Part of ISSN: 0002-7294
Part of ISSN: 1548-1433
Contributors: ROBERT L. KELLY; LIN POYER; BRAM TUCKER
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Bram Tucker

GIVING, SCROUNGING, HIDING, AND SELLING: MINIMAL FOOD SHARING AMONG MIKEA OF MADAGASCAR

Socioeconomic Aspects of Human Behavioral Ecology
2004 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1016/s0190-1281(04)23002-5
Part of ISSN: 0190-1281
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

Mikea Origins: Relicts or Refugees?

Michigan Discussions in Anthropology
2003 | Journal article
Contributors: Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker

Constructing Mikea Identity: Past or Present Links to Forest and Foraging

Ethnohistory
2001-04-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1215/00141801-48-1-2-257
Part of ISSN: 0014-1801
Part of ISSN: 1527-5477
Contributors: James W. Yount; Tsiazonera; Bram T. Tucker
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Bram Tucker

Risk-senstive adaptive tactics: Models and evidence from subsistence studies in biology and anthropology

Journal of Archaeological Research
1999-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/bf02446047
Part of ISSN: 1059-0161
Part of ISSN: 1573-7756
Contributors: Bruce Winterhalder; Flora Lu; Bram Tucker
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Bram Tucker
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