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 ...
Coming soon to a liberal town near you.
A Win-Win-Win situation.
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.
Take my wife...please!
I doubt that.
Multiple partners without stability is more the liberal way.
Half a wife? I don’t see the down side to this........
Polyandry exists in extreme environments. It’s one of three forms of human marriage i.e monogamy (the human norm), polygyny, and polyandry.
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."
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
At least these Indians don’t bathe in the Ganges River, or shoot arrows at cowboys.
I’ll bet breaking rocks is an easy job to find there, but how the heck would anyone farm that?
Depends on which half of the wife you get stuck with....
The article does say that...and if I read more more closely I wouldn’t have repeated...
oops;^)!
“Ill bet breaking rocks is an easy job to find there, but how the heck would anyone farm that?”
Like they do in Nepal, terraces.
Hopefully the half that doesn’t talk......
lol...
With my luck, I’d get the half that eats... (Old joke, sorry!)
What a view!!
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