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Brothers share wife to secure family land
CNN ^ | 10/24/2008 | Sara Sidner

Posted on 10/24/2008 5:48:04 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

Amar and Kundan Singh Pundir are brothers. Younger brother Amar breaks rocks in a mine for a living. Kundan farms their small piece of inherited land. They live in a beautiful but remote hillside village in the clouds of Himachal Pradesh, India.

Both aged in their forties, the two brothers have lived together nearly their whole lives. They are poor and share just about everything: Their home, their work and a wife.

"See we have a tradition from the beginning to have a family of five to 10 people. Two brothers and one wife." Kundan says.

They practice what is known as fraternal polyandry -- where the brothers of one family marry the same woman. Why? Tradition and economics.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: polyandry
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1 posted on 10/24/2008 5:48:04 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Coming soon to a liberal town near you.


2 posted on 10/24/2008 5:51:26 AM PDT by ikka
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To: Red in Blue PA

A Win-Win-Win situation.


3 posted on 10/24/2008 5:52:33 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Ahhh...”polyandry” I think they (anthropologists) use to call it.

One of the most unusual (and disturbing) social systems. A form of population control in harsh lands with few resources.

All that from a survey course fifteen years ago. Man, I’m dull, sorry to bore you.


4 posted on 10/24/2008 5:56:16 AM PDT by Natchez Hawk (Haider was a drunken, suicidial, sad, gay man. At least he lived up to his idol...)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Take my wife...please!


5 posted on 10/24/2008 5:56:46 AM PDT by ExiledChicagoan (I see a red door and I want it painted black. But that's just me.)
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To: ikka
Coming soon to a liberal town near you.

I doubt that.

Multiple partners without stability is more the liberal way.

6 posted on 10/24/2008 5:56:52 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Half a wife? I don’t see the down side to this........


7 posted on 10/24/2008 5:57:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Polyandry exists in extreme environments. It’s one of three forms of human marriage i.e monogamy (the human norm), polygyny, and polyandry.


8 posted on 10/24/2008 5:57:11 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Red Badger
It can be downright funny.


9 posted on 10/24/2008 5:58:58 AM PDT by wolfpat (If you don't like the Patriot Act, you're really gonna hate Sharia Law.)
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To: Natchez Hawk

As the article says, "fraternal polyandry."

One of the most unusual (and disturbing) social systems.

Probably less harsh than the "50% of men must remain single" alternative.

A form of population control in harsh lands with few resources.

That resource being "women."

10 posted on 10/24/2008 5:59:21 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Himachal Pradesh

Owl_Eagle

There are people who are surrounded by bigots
and know it is wrong, but are afraid to be vocal against it.
These people are going to pull the lever for Obama
and they are not being polled.
angee_is_mad, DUmmy

11 posted on 10/24/2008 5:59:24 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Red in Blue PA

At least these Indians don’t bathe in the Ganges River, or shoot arrows at cowboys.


12 posted on 10/24/2008 6:00:58 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Owl_Eagle

I’ll bet breaking rocks is an easy job to find there, but how the heck would anyone farm that?


13 posted on 10/24/2008 6:02:00 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: Red Badger

Depends on which half of the wife you get stuck with....


14 posted on 10/24/2008 6:03:29 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Gondring

The article does say that...and if I read more more closely I wouldn’t have repeated...

oops;^)!


15 posted on 10/24/2008 6:04:30 AM PDT by Natchez Hawk (Haider was a drunken, suicidial, sad, gay man. At least he lived up to his idol...)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

“I’ll bet breaking rocks is an easy job to find there, but how the heck would anyone farm that?”

Like they do in Nepal, terraces.


16 posted on 10/24/2008 6:04:38 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: Abathar

Hopefully the half that doesn’t talk......


17 posted on 10/24/2008 6:07:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
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To: Abathar

lol...


18 posted on 10/24/2008 6:08:09 AM PDT by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: Abathar

With my luck, I’d get the half that eats... (Old joke, sorry!)


19 posted on 10/24/2008 6:08:35 AM PDT by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

What a view!!


20 posted on 10/24/2008 6:08:37 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (White Trash for Sarah!)
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