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China, october 2009. North ouest of Yunnan province.
Cizhong village, whose majority of inhabitants are tibetan, often converted to catholism, due to the historical presence of french and belgium priests. There is a church led by Father yao Fei.
Sinam Yangzong, 37, is tibetan and buddhist. According to the tibetan tradition, a woman can marry several or whole brotherhood of a family, in order to avoid to divide the property of the brothers, as the wife will come to leave at her husband(s)' home; Yangzong has two husbands, who are brothers, whose she got two chidren from the eldest one. Both of her husbands are working outside of the village, one as sheperd and another one as mingong in a city. She feels as chinese and tibetan at the same time and speaks both languages with her children. 
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