The Return of Polyandry : Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet / Heidi E. Fjeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fjeld, Heidi E., Author.

, University of Oslo, Author.

Contributor:

Universitetet i Oslo, Funder.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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). 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).

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Tibetan Terms

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Return of Polyandry

Chapter 2 Trajectories to House Membership

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

Glossary of Tibetan Terms

References

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2024)

ISBN:

9781800738645

1800738641