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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The death of Gyalo Thondup, elder brother to the 14th Dalai Lama and a prominent figure among exiled Tibetans, marks the “the end of an era” for attempted negotiations between Dharamsala and ...

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 ...

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 ...

By David Pierson Tibetan Buddhism has long been led by the Dalai Lama, the 88-year-old spiritual leader who fled Tibet in 1959 and has been living in exile in India ever since. Beijing considers ...

For example, some societies in Africa and the Middle East have long-standing traditions of polygyny, while certain communities in Tibet and Nepal have practiced polyandry. Dr. Thomas added ...