Dissertation Research: Variability in Marriage Strategies of Traditional Nepalese

本项目涉及加州大学戴维斯分校一名学生的论文研究。这个项目是研究尼泊尔传统民族的婚姻策略。学生将研究一夫一妻制，兄弟多夫制和一夫多妻制婚姻，研究用于引导人们进入每种婚姻类型的决策规则。调查方法包括住户调查、生育和婚姻历史回顾以及深度访谈。学生将测试假设，个人将选择婚姻形式，以提高他们的个人经济地位，从而影响他们的行为生态适应性。这项研究很重要，因为它增加了我们对世界上越来越少的另类婚姻形式的理解。此外，该项目还培训了一名社会科学家的研究方法，并增强了我们对这个世界上奇异但重要的地区的认识。

This project involves the dissertation research of a student from the University of California-Davis. The project is to study marriage strategies of traditional people in Nepal. The student will examine monogamous, fraternal polyandrous, and polygynandrous marriages, examining the decision rules used to guide people into each type of marriage. The methods will include household survey censuses, retrospective fertility and marital histories, and in-depth interviews. The student will test hypotheses that individuals will select marriage forms that enhance their individual economic positions with consequences for their behavioral ecological fitness. This research is important because it adds to our understanding of alternative forms of marriage, which are increasingly rare in the world. In addition the project trains a social scientist in research methods and enhances our knowledge of this exotic but important region of the world.