Family

Papers on Tibetan Marriage/Polyandry, Demography, Fertility, Aging, and Family Planning

Penam 2002

Bhatia, Shushum; Dranyi, Tsegyal; and Rowley, Derrick

• A Social and Demographic Study of Tibetan Refugees in India.
  [Social Science & Medicine. Volume 54, 2002: pp411-422]

Childs, Geoff

• Tibetan Fertility Transitions: Comparisons With Europe, China, and India.
  [JIATS, no 4 (December 2008), THL #T5556, 21 pp]
• A Preliminary Bibliography of Tibetan Demography [Manuscript]
• Demographic Analysis of Small Populations Using the Own-Children Method.
  [Field Methods, Vol. 16, No. 4, November 2004 379–395]
• Methods, Meanings, and Representations in the Study of Past Tibetan Societies.
  [Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 1 (October 2005): 1-11]
• Demographic Dimensions of an Intervillage Land Dispute in Nubri, Nepal. [American Anthropologist. 103(4):1096-1113. 2001.]
• Namas and Nyelus: Marriage, Fertility, and Illegitimacy in Tibetan Societies. [Tibetan Borderlands. PIATS 2003.]

Childs, Geoff & Barkin, Gareth

• Using Images to Promote Pronatalism and Sexual Endogamy Among Tibetan Exiles in South Asia.
  [Visual Anthropology Review, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 34-52. 2006.]

Childs, Geoff; Goldstein, Melvyn C.;  and Wangdui, Puchung

• Balancing People, Policies, and Resources in Rural Tibet.
  [In Eduardo S. Brondizio and Emilio F. Moran, eds, Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions. Springer Publishers 2012]

Childs, Geoff; Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Wangdui, Puchung; and Choedup, Namgyal

• What Constitutes “Successful Aging” in a Tibetan Context?
  [In Aging Across Cultures: Growing Old in Non-Western Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin. New York: Springer Publishing Company 2021]

Childs, Geoff; Goldstein, Melvyn; Jiao, Ben; and Beall, Cynthia M.

• Tibetan Fertility Transitions in China and South Asia.
  [Population and Development Review 31(2): 337–349 (June 2005)]

ChinaDaily.com.cn

• Elderly Tibet monks, nuns get pension

Craig, Sienna

• "Not Found in Tibetan Society": Culture, Childbirth, and a Politics of Life on the Roof of the World"
  [Himalaya. XXX(1-2). 101-115, 2010.]

Craig, Sienna; Childs, Geoff; and Beall, Cynthia M.

• "Closing the Womb Door: Contraception Use and Fertility Transition Among Culturally Tibetan Women in Highland Nepal"  [Matern Child Health J. 2016 May 11. [Epub ahead of print]

Fischer, Andrew

• Population Invasion versus Urban Exclusion in the Tibetan Areas of Western China.
  [Population and Development Review, 34, no. 4, December 2008: 631-662]

Freeberne, Michael

• Changing Population Characteristics in Tibet, 1959 to 1965.
  [Population Studies, 19(3): 317-320. March 1966]

Goldstein, Melvyn C.

• When Brothers Share A Wife.
  [Updated 2011 with author's note. Anthropology. 12/13. pp 74-78.]
  [Natural History. 96(3):109-112, 1987.]
• Ethnogenesis and resource competition among Tibetan refugees in South India.
  [In Leo A. Desparas (ed.) Ethnicity and Resource Competition in Plural Societies, The Hague: Mouton, 159-86]
• Crtique of N. Levine's View of Polyandry in "The Dynamics of Polyandry".
  [Anthropos. 85.]
• Adjudication and Partition in the Tibetan Stem Family.
  [D. Buxbaum (ed.), Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical and Contemporary Perspective. Seattle, WA. University of Wahington Press. 205-214, 1978.]
• New Perspectives on Tibetan Fertility and Population Decline.
  [American Ethnologist. 8 (4): 721-729, 1981]
• Fraternal Polyandry and Fertility in a High Himalayan Valley in Northwest Nepal.
  [Human Ecology. 4(3): 223-233, 1976]

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

• Tibetan Fraternal Polyandry: A Test of Sociobiological Theory.
  [American Anthropologist. 83(1): 898-901, 1981]
• The Transformation of the Social Matrix of Tibetan Populations in the High Himalaya.
  [Environmental and Human Population Problems at High Altitude. Pp 101-105. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. 1981.]
• Preliminary Notes on Marriage and Kinship Among the Sherpa of Helambu and Solo-Khumba andLhasa Tibetans.
  [Contributions to Nepalese Studies. Vol. 2, No. 1: 57-70, 1975.]

Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Jiao, Ben (Benjue); Beall, Cynthia M.; and Tsering, Phuntsog

• Fertility and Family Planning in Rural Tibet.
  [The China Journal. 47: 19-40, 2002]
  see also: Development and Change in Rural Tibet, Problems and Adaptations [43. 758-779.] [2003]

Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Beall, Cynthia M.

• Growing Old in Tibet- Tradition, Family and Change.
  [In "Aging Asian Concepts and Experiences Past and Present", edited by Suzanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart, pp. 155-176. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Science Press.1997]
• China's Birth Control Policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region: Myths and Realities.
  [Asian Survey Vol. XXXI. 3: 285-303, March 1991]

Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Childs, Geoff; and Wangdui, Puchung

• 'Going for Income' in Village Tibet: A Longitudinal Analysis of Change and Adaptation, 1997-98 to 2006-07.
  [Asian Survey. Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 513-34. 2008.]

Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Childs, Geoff; Wangdui, Puchung; and Beall, Cynthia M.

• Modernization and the status of the rural elderly: continuity under conditions of rapid change in China's Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).
  [Journal of the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences, 2013]

Hao, Yan

• Tibetan Population in China: Myths and Facts Re-examined.
  [Asian Ethnicity Vol. 1 N.1: 11-36, March 2000]

Jiao, Ben (Benjue)

• Polyandrous Marital Status in Rural Tibet
  [Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House, 2014]

Jue, Ben (Ben Jiao). (Translated from the English [dissertation] by Wang Xuhui)

• Taiyang xia de rizi: Xizang nongqu dianxing hunyin de renleixue yanjiu. Zhongguo zangxue chubanshe. (Life under the Sun: Anthropological Research on the typical marital type of a Tibetan agricultural district.)
  [China-Tibet Studies Publishing House, 2012]

Levine, Nancy E. & Joan Silk

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

Levine, Nancy E.

• Differential Child Care in Three Tibetan Communities: Beyond Son Preference.
  [Population and Development Review Vol. 13 N.2: 281-305, 1987]
• The Demise of Marriage in Purang, Tibet: 1959-1990.
  [Tibetan Studies Vol. 1, Proceedings of 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies. 1992]

Ma, Rong

• Temporary Migrants in Lhasa in 2005.
  [Co-written with Dr. Tanzen Lhundup. Presented at the 11th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Study, Bonn University, Germany (August 27-September 2)]
• Han and Tibetan Residential Patterns in Lhasa.
  [The China Quarterly No. 128 (December 1991), pp. 814-835.]
• Population Structure and Changes in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
  [Presented at the International Conference on “Tibet Autonomy” at Harvard University (Nov. 28-29, 2007)]

Ma, Rong & Pan, Naigu

• The Tibetan Population and Their Geographical Distribution in China.
  [Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.Vol.1: 507-516, 1994]

Min, Feng

• Matrilineal Marriage in Tibetan Areas in Western Sichuan Province.
  [Asian Highlands Perspectives, 6 (2010), 251-280]

Rilye, Nancy E.

• China's Population: New Trends and Challenges.
  [Population Reference Bureau, Vol 59, No 2. 2004]

Ross, J. L.

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

Schrempf, Mona

• Introduction (with Houben, Vincent), and Planning the Modern Tibetan Family in China.
  [Excerpts from "Figurations of Modernity: Global and Local Representations in Comparative Perspective", published Dec 2008 by Campus Verlag]
• Planning the Modern Tibetan Family.
  [V. Houben and M Schrempf (eds.), Figurations of Modernity - Global and Local Representations in Comparative Perspective, pp. 121-151, 2008]

Shastri, Lobsang

• The Marriage Customs of Ru-Thog (Mnga'-Ris).
  [Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vol 2. 1992]

Wangmo, Tenzin 

• Health Perception and Health Behavior of Elder Tibetans Living in India and Switzerland.  [Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology, 26: 331-348. 2011]
• Changing expectations of care among older Tibetans living in India and Switzerland.
  [Aging & Society, 30: 879-896. 2010 ]

Wangmo, Tenzin & Teaster, Pamela B.

• The Bridge From Then to Now: Tibetan Elders Living in Diaspora.
  [Journal of Applied Gerontology, 29(4): 434-454. 2010]