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Marriage: History, Economy & Cultures

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and between them and their in-laws. It is nearly a cultural universal, but the definition of marriage varies between cultures…

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Marriage topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Economy and Cultures as prominent areas in the source structure around Marriage.

Related topics
543
Source areas
13
Connected nodes
556
Extracted relationships
523
Concept neighborhoods
119
Bridge connections
556

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 314 topics
Types · 53 topics
Partner selection · 36 topics
History · 33 topics
Economic considerations · 25 topics
Law · 24 topics
Religion · 20 topics
Definitions · 11 topics
Post-marital residence · 10 topics
Etymology · 6 topics
Divorce and annulment · 5 topics
Health · 5 topics
Criticism of marriage · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Etymology

Definitions

Types

Partner selection

Economic considerations

Post-marital residence

Law

Religion

Health

Divorce and annulment

History

Criticism of marriage

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Marriage connects Entity context

The extracted context around Marriage shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Marriage → After Which Follows, Allen, An Historical, April, BBC Radio, Blackwell, British Marriages, Callan, Catholic ChurchGautier, Chris Knight, Christina HardymentBradley, College Historical Society, Comparative Approach, Conjugial, David, Domestic Relations Law, Dunbar, Early Human Kinship, Early Human Kinship Was, Emanuel Swedenborg Another extracted example is Marriage → Americas, Ancient Greek, CE, China, Fujian, In, Indigenous, Italy, Latin Christendom, Porta Latina, Possibly, President Grover Cleveland, Rome, Same-sex, San Giovanni, Several, Th, The Codex Theodosianus, Washington, We'wha. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Marriage

Top relations

related to External links · 57
Marriage → After Which Follows, Allen, An Historical, April, BBC Radio, Blackwell, British Marriages, Callan, Catholic ChurchGautier, Chris Knight, Christina HardymentBradley, College Historical Society, Comparative Approach, Conjugial, David, Domestic Relations Law, Dunbar, Early Human Kinship, Early Human Kinship Was, Emanuel Swedenborg
related to Same-sex and third-gender marriages · 22
Marriage → Americas, Ancient Greek, CE, China, Fujian, In, Indigenous, Italy, Latin Christendom, Porta Latina, Possibly, President Grover Cleveland, Rome, Same-sex, San Giovanni, Several, Th, The Codex Theodosianus, Washington, We'wha
related to Wicca · 22
Marriage → Although, Christian, Consensual, Frederic Lamond, Gillian, God, Goddess, Great Rite, Handfasting, High Priest, High Priestess, In, It, Most Wiccan, Pagan, Pagans, Some, Some Wiccan, The, Wicca
related to Further reading · 17
Marriage → Bellarmine, Council, Dying Well, Edward Westermarck, Holy Matrimony, James Donovan, John Dalton, Lucas Brothers, Matrimony, Part, Richardson, Robert, Son, The, The Art, Translated, Trent
related to Temporary marriages · 17
Marriage → China, Examples, Germanic, Historically, Iran, Iraq, Islamic, Islamic Arab, Middle Ages, Mosuo, Muslim, Muslim-majority, Muḥammad, Qurʾān, The, The Islamic, Turkey
related to Cohabitation · 16
Marriage → Australia, Beijing, Beijing University, China, Chinese, Cohabitation, Conversely, Guo Jianmei, However, In, Mosuo, Newsday, Saudi Arabia, Such, This, Walking
related to China · 15
Marriage → AIDS, Although, China, Chinese, Families, Fu Xi, In, Individuals, Marrying, Nüwa, Over, Starting October, The, The New Marriage Law, When
related to Incest taboo, exogamy, and endogamy · 14
Marriage → An Avunculate, Argentina, Australia, Austria, However, In, In South Korea, Malaysia, Marriages, Russia, Societies, Such, This, United States
related to State recognition · 13
Marriage → Civil, Conversely, For, In, Islamic, Israel, It, Lebanon, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, Similarly, Some, When
related to Legitimacy of offspring · 12
Marriage → Gough, In, India, Kathleen Gough, Nayar, None, Notes, Nuer, Queries, Sudan, The, This

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

marriages rights women may divorce countries religious husband legal married wife one children also man family social marry laws law

Marriage relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 523 structured relationships around Marriage. Examples in this analysis include Marriage → is a → marriage where one or both spouses are under the age of 18 and Marriage → is a → marriage that occurs between an uncle and his niece or between an aunt and her nephew. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Marriageis amarriage where one or both spouses are under the age of 180.90text
Marriageis amarriage that occurs between an uncle and his niece or between an aunt and her nephew0.90text
Marriageis amarriage in which one or both of the parties is married against their will0.90text
Marriageis ametaphysical0.90text
Marriageis avoluntary contract by a man and a woman0.90text
Marriageis astory about Nüwa and Fu Xi who invented proper marriage procedures after becoming married0.90text
dowryinstance ofcustoms0.80text
bride priceinstance ofcustoms0.80text
marriageable ageinstance ofcustoms0.80text
and criminalization of premaritalinstance ofcustoms0.80text
extramarital sexinstance ofcustoms0.80text
high male mortality in warfareinstance ofalthough other factors0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Marriage bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Religious, May and Countries. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Marriage
    • Religious
    • May
    • Countries
    • Civil
    • Women
    • Age
    • One
    • Many
    • Legal
    • Children
    • Social
    • Recognized
  • marriage
    • Religious
    • May
    • Countries
    • Civil
    • Women
    • Age
    • One
    • Many
    • Legal
    • Children
    • Social
    • Recognized
  • legal contract
    • Rights
    • Countries
    • Child
    • Recognized
    • Often
    • Polygyny
    • Marriage
    • Women
    • Marriages
    • Civil
    • Laws
    • Wife
  • equal rights for women
    • Men
    • Married
    • Rights
    • Women
    • Bride
    • Age
    • Civil
    • Many
    • Countries
    • One
    • Marry
    • Law
  • marriageable age
    • Marry
    • States
    • Women
    • Bride
    • Marriage
    • Child
    • Married
    • Social
    • Children
    • Men
    • Sexual
    • Also
  • group marriage
    • Religious
    • May
    • Countries
    • Civil
    • Women
    • Age
    • One
    • Many
    • Legal
    • Children
    • Social
    • Recognized
  • family
    • Property
    • Woman
    • Married
    • Wife
    • Often
    • Legal
    • Law
    • Marry
    • Marriage
    • Husband
    • Rights
    • Marriages
  • child sexual abuse
    • Marriages
    • Legal
    • Countries
    • Rights
    • Laws
    • Spouses
    • Marriage
    • Women
    • Law
    • Social
    • Children
    • One

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Marriage, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Marriage with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
MarriageOverview · splits 242 ⟂ 315
MarriageTypes · splits 503 ⟂ 54
MarriagePartner selection · splits 520 ⟂ 37
MarriageHistory · splits 523 ⟂ 34
MarriageEconomic considerations · splits 531 ⟂ 26
MarriageLaw · splits 532 ⟂ 25
MarriageReligion · splits 536 ⟂ 21
MarriageDefinitions · splits 545 ⟂ 12
MarriagePost-marital residence · splits 546 ⟂ 11
MarriageEtymology · splits 550 ⟂ 7
MarriageHealth · splits 551 ⟂ 6
MarriageDivorce and annulment · splits 551 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Marriage

Nodes557
Edges556
Triples523
Avg. degree2
Density0.003591
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Marriage to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Economy & Cultures, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Marriage · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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