The Return of Polyandry

Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet

Heidi E. Fjeld (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-719-9 (ISBN)

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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
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-719-2 / 1805397192
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-719-9 / 9781805397199
Zustand	Neuware