YUSHU COUNTY, CHINA - JULY 18: (CHINA OUT) Tibetan man
Gama Sangding (L) poses for a photo with his elder brother
La Wen (R) and their common wife
Cai Zhuo (C), in front of their tent at the Burong Village on July 18, 2007 in Anchong Township of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, northwest China. The 40-year-old Tibetan woman
Cai Zhuo has two husbands who are brothers, 44-year-old
La Wen and 41-year-old
Gama Sangding. Fraternal Polyandry is a type of marriage that brothers live in a common area and share a common wife. When children are born into the arrangement, they call the oldest brother 'father' and the other brothers 'uncle' regardless of who the biological father is. Polyandry do not conform to the China's Marriage Law.