POLYANDROUS MARITAL STATUS IN RURAL TIBET

"The publication of Dr. Ben Jiao's dissertation in China is a welcome addition to the growing literature in China about Tibetan culture and society as well as an excellent example of how anthropological approaches and frameworks can bring penetrating analyses to our understanding of complex social institutions. And, of course, it is especially fitting that the first Tibetan to receive a PhD in the West has conducted the first study of Tibetan fraternal polyandry in Tibet-and that his study is a major contribution to the field of anthroplogy and Tibetan studies." -----Melyvn C. Goldstein
Dr. Ben Jiao is Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Ethnology, the Tibetan Academy of Social Science. He earned his MA and PhD from the Anthropology Department, Case Western University, Ohio, USA in 1993 and 2001. He is the first Tibetan from China to earn a PhD overseas.