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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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some form of polyandry are found in polygamous
and monogamous unions (not infrequent), in con-
vents, and in the loose life. As the various forms
of marriage operate to establish almost a balance of
sex-numbers, it results that nuns and prostitutes are
probably not more numerous than the correspond-
ing classes in monastic Europe.
The withdrawal of men into monastic life does not
affect the problem as directly as it would in a mono-
gamous country, since in the typical polyandric
family it merely results in a diminution, by one, of
the number of husbands married to the wife or
wives. It diminishes the number of women actu-
ally married under some form, only in so far as the
monk may be considered as belonging to a family
which might have enjoyed the luxury of mono-
gamic or polygamic marriage. Such monks are not
numerous. M. Grenard thinks that the various
forms of marriage are seen, as to frequency, in the
following order: Several husbands with several
wives; several husbands and one wife; one husband
and several wives; one husband and one wife.
Whether or not this be exact, it is obvious that by
giving legal recognition to this variety of unions,
the Tibetans have created an elastic system easily
adjustable to the economic condition of individuals
or communities. Relatively stable as are these aver-
age conditions in Tibet, it may well be supposed
that, in so far as they may be disturbed by war or
pestilence, there will be change in the position of
any particular type of union, appearing in the above
series, while the forces work toward the end of main-
taining a fixed population in times of normal peace.
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