Heidi E. Fjeld

Broschiertes Buch

The Return of Polyandry

Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet

Beschreibung

This book describes the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley during 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.

Autor

Heidi E. Fjeld is Professor in Medical Anthropology at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo. She is part of EATWELL, a radically interdisciplinary project on food systems in Bhutan, and the author of Commoners and Nobles: Hereditary Divisions in Tibet (NIAS, 2005).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781805397199
• ISBN-10: 1805397192
• Artikelnr.: 70107206