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 ...

Last year anthropologist Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark breezed into Kalimpong with his wife to study a unique form of Tibetan polyandry called za-sum-pa, the sharing of wives between fathers ...

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 ...

Tibet? Not so much. But in its focused, unshowy, methodical way, “Frontline”’s “Battle for Tibet’’ makes the case that the world should be paying closer attention to the isolated ...

NEW DELHI — The elder brother of the Dalai Lama and former chairman of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, Gyalo Thondup, who led several rounds of talks with China and worked with foreign ...

Several events were held on Monday at Amherst Town Hall at 9:00 a.m. Town council members read a proclamation, followed by the ‘Walk for Tibet,’ an eight-mile peace march from Amherst to ...

I was resting near a playground, between interviews for a story on the shrinking number of Tibetan kids in a boarding school built for them in the northern Indian city of Dharamshala. This ...