The Return of Polyandry
Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet
Seiten
2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-719-9 (ISBN)
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-719-9 (ISBN)
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.
Heidi E. Fjeld is a Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo. She is currently the Project Lead of ‘From Asia to Africa: Antibiotic Trajectories across the Indian Ocean’ (2020-2025) and is the author of Commoners and Nobles: Hereditary Divisions in Tibet (NIAS, 2005).
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Tibetan terms
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Return of Polyandry
Chapter 2. Trajectories into Houses
Chapter 3. Fraternal Relations
Chapter 4. Female Roles
Chapter 5. The House as Ritual Space
Chapter 6. Moral Networks and enduring Hierarchies
Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix: Timeline
Glossary of Tibetan Terms
References
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.09.2024 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-80539-719-2 / 1805397192 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80539-719-9 / 9781805397199 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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