Socio-economic and Cultural Factors Underlying the Contemporary Revival of Fraternal Polyandry in Tibet. PhD dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2001. 1968 An Anthropological Study Of The ...

Polyandry is also practiced by the Toda tribe of Nilgiris, the Najanad Vellala of Travancore, and some Nair caste systems in South India. In 1988, Tibet University conducted a survey of 753 ...

Monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry are all found in Tibet, but on the whole monogamy is more prevalent. The People of Tibet. By Sir Charles Bell. Pp. xix + 319 + 57 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press ...

But polyandry nowadays is rare. It survives in Nepal in a few ethnic Tibetan communities such as this one, who are called Lamas. Even in remote Barauntse, polyandry is struggling to survive Tsepal ...