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Research Interests
Professor Bledsoe’s studies have centered on cultural visions of reproduction and the lifecourse in West Africa and beyond. Specific themes have included marriage, fertility, child fosterage, health, contraception, aging, obstetrics, and migration. Several West African studies have been followed by U.S. and European counterparts.
Conceptually, the work has examined forms of ideation, regulation, and quantitative calculus as ethnographic terrain. It asks, among other things, (a) the politics of knowledge and the law, and (b) how formal perspectives usually attributed to demography, economics, and medicine can be combined with the softer social sciences to probe the dynamics that shape life events and to derive insights into the mutual cultural construction of nature and science.
Education/Academic qualification
Anthropology, PhD, Stanford University
… → 1976
Anthropology, MA, Stanford University
… → 1972
General Studies, BA, University of Arizona
… → 1971
Research interests
- Anthropology of reproduction
- Child fostering
- Contraception
- Fertility
- Lifecourse and cultural perceptions of time
- Obstetrics
- Politics of knowledge
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Research Output
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Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene
Barrett, S., Dasgupta, A., Dasgupta, P., Neil Adger, W., Anderies, J., van den Bergh, J., Bledsoe, C., Bongaarts, J., Carpenter, S., Stuart Chapin, F., Crépin, A. S., Daily, G., Ehrlich, P., Folke, C., Kautsky, N., Lambin, E. F., Levin, S. A., Mäler, K. G., Naylor, R., Nyborg, K. & 6 others, , Mar 24 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 12, p. 6300-6307 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open Access3 Scopus citations -
The politics of AIDS, condoms, and heterosexual relations in Africa: Recent evidence from the local print media
Bledsoe, C., Jan 1 2019, Births and Power: Social Change and the Politics of Reproduction. Taylor and Francis, p. 197-223 27 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The politics of children: Fosterage and the social management of fertility among the mende of Sierra Leone
Bledsoe, C., Jan 1 2019, Births and Power: Social Change and the Politics of Reproduction. Taylor and Francis, p. 81-100 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
6 Scopus citations -
Fertility and Culture: Anthropological Insights
Bledsoe, C. H., Mar 26 2015, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition. Elsevier Inc, p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Review of Balancing Men, Morals and Money: Women's Agency between HIV and Security in a Malawi Village by Janneke Verheijen
Bledsoe, C. H., 2014, In: Population and Development Review. 40, 1, p. 161-164 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Open Access