Discover the life of a tribe with a free wife-swapping custom

Discover the life of a tribe with a free wife-swapping custom

Monday, April 22, 2024 11:30 AM (GMT+7)

The Drokpa are a tribe living along the Indus River in northern India. They maintain strange customs, including a tradition of wife-swapping and public displays of affection.

The Drokpa tribe lives in small villages in the Ladakh region, which lies between the disputed region between India and Pakistan.

The Drokpa tribe, with a population of about 2,500 people, lives along the Indus River in the Jammu and Kashmir region of northern India and has quite strange traditional cultural features.

The name Drokpa means Aryan or white people of Ladakh, believed to be descendants of soldiers in Alexander the Great's Greek army who were lost during Alexander's conquest of Asia in the 300s BC.

However, many other scientists believe that the Drokpas originated from a group of Dards who migrated from the Hindukush Mountains (in Gilgit Baltistan, now Pakistan) to western Ladakh centuries ago. This tribe has strong characteristics of the indigenous Aryan culture. This hypothesis is more likely to be correct.

Since ancient times, the Drokpa people have had a tradition of kissing in public and exchanging wives freely without affecting the relationship between people.

Men in this tribe have the right to exchange and bargain to exchange their wives with others at will.

Men in this tribe have the right to exchange and bargain to exchange their wives with others at will.

Today, this custom has been banned as it is considered uncivilized behavior. The Drokpa only practice kissing and wife-swapping within the community, when no outsiders are visiting.

Drokpa men and women are tall, have good-looking faces, large bright eyes, thick lips, straight noses and dark eyebrows. To maintain pure bloodlines, tribe members usually do not marry outsiders.

Music, dance, jewelry, flowers and barley wine are typical hobbies of the Drokpa people. The tribe's unique culture is reflected in the elaborate costumes and decorations worn during festivals. During the Bonano festival held at the end of summer, men and women of the tribe dance enthusiastically for three consecutive days to celebrate the most important event of the year.

PV (According to ANTĐ)

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