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- ISBN 9781805397199
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2024
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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 communities. This book takes as its starting point the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley from the 1980s.
Heidi E. Fjeld is Professor in Medical Anthropology at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo. She is part of EATWELL, a radically interdisciplinary project on food systems in Bhutan, and the author of Commoners and Nobles: Hereditary Divisions in Tibet (NIAS, 2005).