简介:Socialrelationshipsmeandifferentthingstodif-ferentpeople.Anyobservationofsociallifehastoin-cluderecognitionoftheexistenceof“thefamily”.“Fa-mily”isnotonlyabiologicalgroupcreatedbyasexualunion,butalsoasocialorganizationestablishedthroughrelativesocialnetworks.Inanysocialsystemorinanynationality,the“family”servesasthefoun-dationandmainstayofsociallife.Therefore,the“fa-mily”attractsattentionfromanthropologists,sociolo-gistsandhistoriansattheoutsetoftheirinvestigations.AsaregioninhabitedbyTibetans,“family”inTibetnotonlyreferstoonehouseholdinhabitedandinher-