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- Polyandry abstract "Polyandry (/ˈpɒliˌændri, ˌpɒliˈæn-/; from Greek: πολυ- poly-, \"many\" and ἀνήρ anēr, \"man\") involves marriage that includes more than two partners and can fall under the broader category of polyamory. More specifically, it is a form of polygamy, where a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. Polyandry is contrasted with polygyny, involving one male and two or more females. If a marriage involves a plural number of \"husbands and wives\" participants of each gender, then it can be called polyamory, group or conjoint marriage. In its broadest use, polyandry refers to sexual relations with multiple males within or without marriage.Of the 1,231 societies listed in the 1980 Ethnographic Atlas, 186 were found to be monogamous; 453 had occasional polygyny; 588 had more frequent polygyny; and 4 had polyandry. Polyandry is less rare than this figure which listed only those examples found in the Himalayan mountains (28 societies). More recent studies have found more than 50 other societies practicing polyandry.Fraternal polyandry was traditionally practiced among Tibetans in Nepal, parts of China and part of northern India, in which two or more brothers are married to the same wife, with the wife having equal \"sexual access\" to them. It is associated with partible paternity, the cultural belief that a child can have more than one father.Polyandry is believed to be more likely in societies with scarce environmental resources, as it is believed to limit human population growth and enhance child survival. It is a rare form of marriage that exists not only among poor families, but also the elite. For example, polyandry in the Himalayan mountains is related to the scarcity of land; the marriage of all brothers in a family to the same wife allows family land to remain intact and undivided. If every brother married separately and had children, family land would be split into unsustainable small plots. In Europe, this was prevented through the social practice of impartible inheritance (i.e. disinheriting most siblings, many of whom then became celibate monks and priests).".
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Aleut.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Allia_Potestas.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Aristocracy_(class).
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Bhutan.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Bigamy.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Bororo_people.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Brazil.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Canary_Islands.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mating_systems.
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink China.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Christianity.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Cuminapanema_River.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Draupadi.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Drosophila_pseudoobscura.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Eusociality.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Friedrich_Ratzel.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Gender_inequality.
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Guanches.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Hephthalite_Empire.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Hindu.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Hiranyaksha.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink History_of_Tibet_(1950–present).
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Islam.
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Kanak_people.
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Ladakh.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Lagash.
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Maasai_people.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Mahabharata.
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Mamzer.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Marquesas_Islands.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Matrilineality.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Mili_Tibetan_Autonomous_County.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Monogamy.
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Perusia.
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Polygamy.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Polygynandry.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Polygyny.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Polynesians.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Primogeniture.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Prince_Peter_of_Greece_and_Denmark.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Punjab,_India.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Rajasthan.
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Sacred_prostitution.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Sakya.
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- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Sexual_conflict.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Sexy_son_hypothesis.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Sherpa_people.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink South_India.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Sumer.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Tanzania.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Thierry_Lodé.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Tibet.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Tibetan_people.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Toda_people.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Urukagina.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Uttarakhand.
- Polyandry wikiPageWikiLink Vedas.