Tibetan Street Songs
(Under Construction)


Panam 2002

Geoff Childs

Polyandry And Population Growth in a Historical Tibetan Society
[The History of the Family Vol. 8: 423-444, 2003.]

Old-Age Security, Religious Celibacy, And Aggregate Fertility In a Tibetan Population
[Journal of Population Research Vol. 18: 52-66, 2001.]

Melvyn C. Goldstein

When Brothers Share A Wife
[Natural History. 96(3):109-112, 1987.]
Pahari and Tibetan Polyandry Revisited
[Ethnology. 17(3): 325-327, 1978.]
Fraternal Polyandry and Fertility
[Human Ecology. 4(3): 223-233, 1976.]
Stratification, Polyandry, and Family Structure in Central Tibet
[Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 27(1): 64-74, 1971.]
Crtique of N. Levine's view of polyandry in "The Dynamics of Polyandry" (under construction)
[Anthropos. 85.]

Adjudication and Partition in the Tibetan Stem Family (.pdf)
[Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical and Contemporary Perspective. Seattle, WA. University of Wahington Press. 205-214, 1978.]

 see also: Cynthia M. Beall & Melvyn C. Goldstein

Tibetan Fraternal Polyandry: A Test of Sociobiological Theory
[American Anthropologist. 83(1): 898-901, 1981.]

Ben Jiao

Socio-economic and Cultural Factors Underlying the Contemporary Revival of Fraternal Polyandry in Tibet. PhD dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2001.

Levine, Nancy E. & Joan Silk

Why Polyandry Fails: Sources of Instability in Polyandrous Marriages (.pdf)
[Current Anthropology, Vol. 38, No. 3. (Jun., 1997), pp. 375-398.]

Nancy E. Levine

Fathers and Sons: Kinship Value and Validation in Tibetan Polyandry (.pdf)
[Man, New Series, Vol. 22, No. 2. (Jun., 1987), pp. 267-286.]

J. L. Ross

Culture and Fertility in the Nepal Himalayas: A Test of a Hypothesis (.pdf)
[Human Ecology. 12(2): 163-181, 1984.]