When A Woman Is Married to Multiple Brothers: Land, Climate and Cultural Changes in Western Himalaya

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Youba Raj Luintel, “Agency, Autonomy, and the Shared Sexuality: Gender Relations in Polyandry in Nepal Himalaya,” Contributions to Nepalese Studies 31, no. 1 (2004): 43–83.Additional informationNotes on contributorsAghaghia RahimzadehAghaghia Rahimzadeh is a Fulbright Fellow with a doctorate in environmental science, policy, and management from UC Berkeley. She has spent the last decade conducting research in remote mountain communities in Western Himalaya, investigating the social implications of climate change. As an independent scholar, her current work explores the intersection of climate change, infrastructure development and mass tourism to understand how the region confronts these issues on its resource base. Aghaghia is currently a fellow/scholar advisor at the Black Earth Institute. She also guides educational and cultural immersion tours to the Himalaya. Aghaghia has worked with the UN Development Program and the UN Development Fund for Women in Tajikistan and with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Iran. Her publications have appeared in About Place Journal, World Development Perspectives, Land Use Policy, Conservation and Society, Human Ecology, Newfound and Terrain.org.