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Polyandry is a marital arrangement in which a woman has several husbands. In Tibet, those husbands are often brothers; "fraternal polyandry".Concern over which children are fathered by which brother falls on the wife alone.
Polyandry (/ ˈ p ɒ l i ˌ æ n d r i, ˌ p ɒ l i ˈ æ n-/; from Ancient Greek πολύ (polú) ' many ' and ἀνήρ (anḗr) ' man ') is a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. Polyandry is contrasted with polygyny, involving one male and two or more females.
In Tibet, monogamy, polygamy, and polyandry have traditionally been practiced. Some Tibetan refugees now settled in India practice polyandry as a result of their material conditions. [ 33 ] Fraternal polyandry is a way for Tibetans to avoid having to build multiple houses every time a male in the family marries.
Prostitution in Tibet is thought to have existed for centuries. Testimonies of its existence were provided by outside visitors in the first half of the twentieth century. According to the British writer Christopher Hale, due to the practice of polyandry in Tibet, many women were unable to find a husband and moved to villages and towns, where they fell into prostituti
"Polyandry and population growth in a Historical Tibetan Society", History of the Family, 8:423–444. French, Rebecca (2002) The Golden Yoke, ISBN 1-55939-171-5; Goldstein, Melvyn C. (1971) "Stratification, Polyandry, and Family Structure in Central Tibet", Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 27(1): 64–74.
Fraternal polyandry, a marriage of two or more brothers and one woman; Genealogy of Jesus, in which Levirate marriage is offered to explain discrepancies; Posthumous marriage, a marriage in which at least one party is dead; Widow conservation
The epicentre of Tuesday's magnitude 6.8 quake, one of the region's most powerful tremors in recent years, was located in Tingri in China's Tibet, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Mount Everest ...
Polyandry in Tibet was common traditionally, as was polygyny, and having several wives or husbands was never regarded as having sex with inappropriate partners. [131] The Parabhava Sutta states that "a man who is not satisfied with one woman and seeks out other women is on the path to decline".