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Polyandry. --- Dialectic.
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Polyandry. --- Ethnology
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Huwelijk. --- Polyandry. --- Polygamy. --- Samenlevingsvormen.
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Polyandrie --- Ethnologie --- Polyandry. --- Ethnology
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This book provides demographic data on polyandry and nonmarriage, exploring the social and economic context of nonmarriage and its implications vis-a-vis the position of women in the Nepal. It fills gaps in the literature on Tibetan societies with respect to stratification and the position of women.
Single women --- Marriage --- Polyandry --- Social conditions.
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Nyinba (Nepalese people) --- Kinship --- Polyandry --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs. --- Nyinba (Nepalese people) - Social life and customs --- Kinship - Nepal --- Polyandry - Nepal
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"This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Polyandry and wife-selling represented opposite ends of a spectrum of strategies. At one end, polyandry was a means to keep the family together by expanding it. A woman would bring in a second husband in exchange for his help supporting her family. In contrast, wife sale was a means to survive by breaking up a family: a husband would secure an emergency infusion of cash while his wife would escape poverty and secure a fresh start with another man. Even though Qing law prohibited both practices under the rubric "illicit sexual relations," Sommer shows how magistrates charged with propagating and enforcing a fundamentalist Confucian vision of female chastity tried to cope with their social reality in the face of daunting poverty. This contradiction illuminates both the pragmatism of routine adjudication and the increasingly dysfunctional nature of the dynastic state in the face of mounting social crisis. By casting a spotlight on the rural poor and the experiences of both men and women, Sommer provides an alternative to the standard paradigms of women's history that have long dominated scholarship on gender and sexuality in late imperial China."--Provided by publisher.
Married women --- Polyandry --- Rural poor --- S11/0610 --- S11/0710 --- S11/0740 --- Rural poverty --- Poor --- Polygamy --- Married people --- Women --- Wives --- Social conditions --- China: Social sciences--Marriage, love --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Sexual life: general and before 1949 --- Economic conditions --- China --- Armut. --- Ehefrau. --- Frauenhandel. --- Justiz. --- Landbevölkerung. --- Ländlicher Raum. --- Polyandrie. --- Polyandry. --- Qingdynastie. --- Rural poor. --- Social conditions. --- 1644 - 1912. --- China. --- Married women -- China -- Social conditions -- Case studies.. --- Polyandry -- China -- Case studies.. --- Rural poor -- China -- Case studies. --- asian culture. --- asian studies. --- chinese culture. --- chinese law. --- chinese wives. --- east asian history. --- gender studies. --- history of wife selling. --- imperial china. --- late imperial china. --- marital practices in imperial china. --- marriage and family in china. --- marriage and sex in china. --- marriage in china. --- multiple spouses in china. --- polyandry. --- polygamy in rural poor. --- qing china. --- qing dynasty history. --- qing dynasty. --- rural poor in china. --- second husbands in china. --- social history of china. --- wife selling in china. --- wife selling in qing china.
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An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major departure from "folk" or "popular" Buddhism. Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific and historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries and one of the very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries anywhere. Combining ethnographic and oral-historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the events culminating in the foundings. Her work constitutes a major advance both in our knowledge of Sherpa Buddhism and in the integration of anthropological and historical modes of analysis. At the theoretical level, the book contributes to an emerging theory of "practice," an explanation of the relationship between human intentions and actions on the one hand, and the structures of society and culture that emerge from and feed back upon those intentions and actions on the other. It will appeal not only to the increasing number of anthropologists working on similar problems but also to historians anxious to discover what anthropology has to offer to historical analysis. In addition, it will be essential reading for those interested in Nepal, Tibet, the Sherpa, or Buddhism in general.
Budismo --- Sherpas (Pueblo de Nepal) --- Aspectos sociales --- Historia. --- Amali (gembu). --- Bir Shumshere (Rana). --- Bogle, George. --- Celibate monks. --- Classlessness in Sherpa society. --- Dawa Tenzing. --- Debt slavery. --- Dumje festival. --- Exorcisms. --- Gelungma Palma. --- Gembu Tsepal. --- Hastings, Warren. --- Helambu people. --- Inheritance patterns. --- Jang Bahadur (Rana). --- Kemba Dorje. --- Kusang. --- Lama Rena Lingba. --- Levi-Strauss, C. --- Makwan Sher. --- Maoi Rimdu festival. --- Mustang province. --- Nangpa La (pass). --- Ngawang Samden (nun). --- Offering rituals. --- Parsons, Talcott. --- Polyandry. --- Potato cultivation. --- Ram, Hari. --- Serkim gompa. --- Strongman politics. --- Tashilhunpo monastery.
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