Nyinba
Nyinba is a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
The Nyinba are also the name given to a small Tibetan-speaking ethnic group living in northwest Nepal. They are known for their practice of polyandry and their strong preference of sons over daughters, and were studied by anthropologist Nancy Levine in the 1980s.
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