HUNSA, Hunza (Himalayas)
Index→ India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh → Pakistan → Hunsa
Conception and birth are processes
known from an early age (Bircher, 1942 [1948:p77])[1]. Children hear adult conversations
on these issues, and therefore are not in the need of further education “when
the capacities of procreation awake”. No child marriages [p78]. Marriage
taking place at age 16-18; in case of a low age of the bride, the mother of
the groom would sleep between the married ones until the girl is “ripe
enough” for the marital act. A girl is marriageable from age 15 [2].
“In Hunza formerly daughters and sons
married according to the wishes of the parents. Some marry their sons in
childhood when they are young and some when they are grown up. Tose who have
no land and people with many sons mostly delay in marrying their sons. A man
with only one son marries his son in childhood” (p182).
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin:
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology, Berlin
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revised: Sept 2004
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