Editing Polyandry (section)

===Asia===
{{See also|Polyandry in India|Polyandry in Tibet}}
* In the reign of [[Urukagina]] of Lagash, "Dyandry, the marriage of one woman to two men, is abolished."<ref>J. Bottero, E. Cassin & J. Vercoutter (eds.) (translated by R. F. Tannenbaum): ''The Near East: the Early Civilizations''. New York, 1967. p. 82.</ref>
* M. [[Nicolas Notovitch|Notovitck]] mentioned polyandry in [[Ladakh]] or Little 'Tibet' in his record of his journey to Tibet. ("[[The Life of Issa|The Unknown life of Jesus Christ]]" by [[Virchand Gandhi]].)
* Polyandry was widely (and to some extent still is) practised in Lahaul-Spiti situated in isolation in the high Himalayas in India.
* Prior to Islam, in Arabia (southern) "All the kindred have their property in common ...; all have one wife" whom they share.<ref>Strabōn : ''Geographia'' 16:4:25, C 783. Translated in Robertson Smith: ''Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia'', p. 158; quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=HWAbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq= Edward Westermarck: ''The History of Human Marriage''. New York: Allerton Books Co., 1922. vol. 3, p. 154.] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018042907/https://books.google.com/books?id=HWAbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq= |date=2015-10-18 }}</ref>
* The Hoa-tun ([[Hephthalite]]s, White Huns) "living to the north of the Great Wall ... practiced polyandry."<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090529002250/http://www.taiwandna.com/ChineseXinjiangPage.html Xinjiang]}}</ref> Among the Hephthalites, "the practice of several husbands to one wife, or polyandry, was always the rule, which is agreed on by all commentators. That this was plain was evidenced by the custom among the women of wearing a hat containing a number of horns, one for each of the subsequent husbands, all of whom were also brothers to the husband. Indeed, if a husband had no natural brothers, he would adopt another man to be his brother so that he would be allowed to marry."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rick-heli.info/silkroad/eph.html |title=The Hephthalites of Central Asia |website=Rick-heli.info |access-date=6 April 2018 |archive-date=10 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310060957/http://www.rick-heli.info/silkroad/eph.html |url-status=usurped}}</ref>
* "Polyandry is very widespread among the [[Sherpa people|Sherpas]]."<ref>René von Nebesky-Wojkowitz (translated by Michael Bullock) :one research done by one organization about Fraternal Polyandry in Nepal and its detail data find [http://volunteercharitywork.org/polyandry_research.php here] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803141335/http://volunteercharitywork.org/polyandry_research.php |date=2011-08-03 }} ''Where the Gods are Mountains''. New York: Reynal & Co. p. 152.</ref>
* In Bhutan in 1914, polyandry was "the prevailing domestic custom".<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023234531/cu31924023234531_djvu.txt L. W. Shakespear: ''History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-eastern Frontier''. London: Macmillan & Co., 1914.] p. 92.</ref> Nowadays polyandry is rare, but still found for instance among the Brokpas of the Merak-Sakten region.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kuenselonline.com/feature-all-in-the-family/ |title=Feature: All in the Family |access-date=2014-12-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511100949/http://www.kuenselonline.com/feature-all-in-the-family/ |archive-date=2015-05-11 |publisher=Kuensel |date=27 August 2007 }}</ref>
* In several villages in [[Nyarixung]] Township, [[Xigaze Prefecture|Xigaze]], Tibet, up to 90% of families practiced polyandry in 2008.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Suozhen |title=西藏一妻多夫婚姻研究 |date=2009 |publisher=China University of Political Science and Law |url=http://xuewen.cnki.net/ArticleCatalog.aspx?filename=2009087442.nh&dbtype=CMFD&dbname=CMFD2009 |access-date=31 July 2018 |language=zh |archive-date=31 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731153758/http://xuewen.cnki.net/ArticleCatalog.aspx?filename=2009087442.nh&dbtype=CMFD&dbname=CMFD2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Among the [[Nivkh people|Gilyak]]s of Sakhalin Island "polyandry is also practiced."<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/russiannihilisme00buelrich/russiannihilisme00buelrich_djvu.txt ''Russian Nihilism and Exile Life in Siberia''. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co., 1883.] p. 365.</ref>
* Fraternal polyandry was permitted in Sri Lanka under Kandyan Marriage law, often described using the euphemism ''eka-ge-kama'' (literally "eating in one house").<ref>{{cite web |last=Hussein |first=Asiff |title=Traditional Sinhalese Marriage Laws and Customs |url=http://www.lankalibrary.com/rit/marry.htm |access-date=28 April 2012 |archive-date=21 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521061007/http://www.lankalibrary.com/rit/marry.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>{{disputed inline|date=September 2019|talk=Sri Lanka}} Associated Polyandry, or polyandry that begins as monogamy, with the second husband entering the relationship later, is also practiced<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lavenda |first1=Robert H. |last2=Schultz |first2=Emily A |title=Additional Varieties Polyandry |url=http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195189766/student_resources/Supp_chap_mats/Chap13/Additional_Varieties_Polyandry/?view=usa |work=Anthropology: What Does It Mean To Be Human? |access-date=28 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005175758/http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195189766/student_resources/Supp_chap_mats/Chap13/Additional_Varieties_Polyandry/?view=usa |archive-date=5 October 2008 }}</ref> and is sometimes initiated by the wife.<ref>{{cite web |last=Levine |first=NE |title=Conclusion |url=https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action?itemId=6274&itemFileId=10010 |work=Asian and African Systems of Polyandry |access-date=28 April 2012 |archive-date=16 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216001112/https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action?itemId=6274&itemFileId=10010 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Polyandry was common in Sri Lanka, until it was banned by the British in 1859.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kok |first1=Jan |last2=Bulten |first2=Luc |last3=Leede |first3=Bente M. de |title=Persecuted or permitted? Fraternal Polyandry in a Calvinist colony, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), seventeenth and eighteenth centuries |journal=Continuity and Change |year=2021 |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=347–348 |doi=10.1017/S0268416021000308 |s2cid=246905403 |doi-access=free |hdl=2066/247308 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>