{"id":84644,"date":"2026-02-08T18:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84644"},"modified":"2026-02-08T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:05:21","slug":"communities-where-women-marry-multiple-men-exist-all-over-the-world-they-often-have-one-thing-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/08\/communities-where-women-marry-multiple-men-exist-all-over-the-world-they-often-have-one-thing-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities where women marry multiple men exist all over the world. They often have one thing in common"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1OfXIQ.img?w=534&amp;h=351&amp;m=6&amp;x=1193&amp;y=443&amp;s=1007&amp;d=297\" alt=\"Tibetan man Gama Sangding poses for a photo with his elder brother La Wen and their common wife Cai Zhuo, in their tent at the Burong Village on 18 July 2007 (Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>High in the misty hills of Himachal Pradesh this summer,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/asia\/india\/polyandry-india-marriage-brothers-hatti-himachal-pradesh-b2806711.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u00a0a wedding drew hundreds of villagers<\/a> \u2013 not for its pomp, but for its rarity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/family-relationships\/communities-where-women-marry-multiple-men-exist-all-over-the-world-they-often-have-one-thing-in-common\/ar-AA1OfVhI?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69884ae4872d401da5dbd6ced8ad2eb4&amp;cvpid=772d0c05a84242d6fb116db1da970821&amp;ei=26\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>High in the misty hills of Himachal Pradesh this summer,\u00a0a wedding drew hundreds of villagers \u2013 not for its pomp, but for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-relationships"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Polyandry.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84646,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84644\/revisions\/84646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}