Polyandry occurs when, for whatever reason, a society emerges where women are permitted to marry more than one man at the same time. For decades, anthropologists believed that it was extremely rare.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (GPI)--Tanzen Lama, 31, became an outcast in his family when he married Nabina Lama, 27, a woman from his village. His family practices polyandry, the practice of having more than one ...

Marriage takes a remarkable variety of forms around the world, shaped by geography, economics, religion, and history. Among the rarest and most fascinating is polyandry, the practice of a woman having ...