When Brothers Share a Wife

Polyandry is a form of polygamy whereby a woman has several husbands. In Tibet those husbands are a lot brothers, which is why it is most commonly called Fraternal Polyandry. The eldest brother is normally dominant in terms of authority, that is, in managing the household, notwithstanding all the brothers share the work and participate as sexual partners.Goldsteins phrase focuses on the overlap between the domestic group, defined as those individuals that rest in a single household together, and the kin group, or muckle who view themselves as relatives, indoors a certain Tibetan golf club near Limi, Nepal. According to the member, the idea of polygyny the taking of more than one married woman by a single man is practiced by cognate brothers for primarily economic reasons in addition to reasons of tradition. Because of the time requirement of the subsistence economy, a man setting up a monogamous household would feel it difficult if not impossible to farm, manage the anim als, and care to his husband duties.The article concludes by discussing the decline of polyandrous marriages, and even goes so far as to describe that the practice may be completely gone within a single generations time. Discussion Item The article makes me curious how often persons from a more industrialized region paying visit to a tribal or otherwise remote region and exposed to loving elements different from that which is typically seen in their own culture judge the community whom they are visiting, or conclude that their practices are uncivilized, barbaric or disgusting without stopping and taking the time to think critically to the highest degree the economic, political and social reasons behind the practice, as well as the ramifications of changing.