The Return of Polyandry

Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political reforms, including new marriage laws prohibiting plural marriages, polyandry was expected to disappear from...

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Main Author: Fjeld, Heidi E.
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Language:English
Published: Berghahn Books 2023
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description Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political reforms, including new marriage laws prohibiting plural marriages, polyandry was expected to disappear from Tibetan social lives. This book takes as its starting point the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley from the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1161612024-03-29T08:06:30Z The Return of Polyandry Fjeld, Heidi E. Anthropology Sociology Asian Studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBF Sociology: birth thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political reforms, including new marriage laws prohibiting plural marriages, polyandry was expected to disappear from Tibetan social lives. This book takes as its starting point the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley from the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region. 2023-10-05T10:57:10Z 2023-10-05T10:57:10Z 2022 book ONIX_20231005_9781800738645_1881 9781800738645 9781800736078 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/116161 eng image/jpeg n/a https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2vr8tr2 Berghahn Books 10.2307/j.ctv2vr8tr2 10.2307/j.ctv2vr8tr2 8d7e77e2-a9ef-4fa2-9734-1f126d55c330 073b6c88-3e33-4eff-8206-7e7f00da6363 9781800738645 9781800736078 [...] open access
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The Return of Polyandry
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Sociology
Asian Studies
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBF Sociology: birth
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships
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