The Other Side of Polyandry: Property, Stratification and Nonmarriage in the Nepal Himalayas
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Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective Series
Book: Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9789994655298
Length
197p., 22cm.
Subjects
Written years before the concepts of gender inequality and social exclusion gained widespread currency in the field of international development, this important book provides a fine-grained analysis of these social processes. The parallels between Tibetan marriage systems and marriage in pre-industrial Europe (large numbers of unmarried adult women were a common feature of both) are particularly intriguing in the context of South Asia, where marriage often takes ...
