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Polyandry

Polyandry (/ˈpɒliˌændri, ˌpɒliˈæn-/; from Ancient Greek πολύ (polú) 'many' and ἀνήρ (anḗr) 'man') is a form of polygamy in which 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…

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related to Further reading · 71
Polyandry → Adler, Alan, American Anthropologist, Anthropology, Beall, Bibcode, Bristol, Central Tibet, Chicago, Chicago Press, Comparative Family Studies, Crook, CT, Cynthia, Ed, Eds, Eric Alden, Exception, Explaining Tibetan, Family Structure
related to Asia · 39
Polyandry → All, Among, Arabia, Associated Polyandry, British, Brokpas, Dyandry, Fraternal, Gilyaks, Great Wall, Hephthalites, Himalayas, In, In Bhutan, Indeed, India, Islam, Jesus Christ, Kandyan Marriage, Ladakh
related to Known cases · 34
Polyandry → American, Bhutan, Brazil, Canary Islands, China, Cuminapanema River, India, Irigwe, It, Jaunsar-Bawar, Kenya, Ladakh, Maasai, Mosuo, Nepal, Nigeria, Nymba, Pará, Polynesian, Rajasthan
related to Latter-Day Saints · 19
Polyandry → Brigham Young, Church, Cleveland, Existing, Heber, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Kimball, Latter Day Saint, Latter-day Saints, LDS Church, Manifesto, Mormons, Orson Hyde, Sarah, Second Manifesto, The, Young, Zina
related to Europe · 17
Polyandry → According, Allia Potestas, Britons, Conversely, Greece, Julius Caesar, Lacedaemonians, Perusia, Plutarch, Polybius, Reporting, Rome, Senate, Sparta, The, Thus, Timæus
related to Fraternal polyandry · 16
Polyandry → African, England, Fraternal, Greek, Hindu, In, India, Latin, Malwa, Nepal, Northern India, Primogeniture, Punjab, The Toda, This, Tibet
related to Hinduism · 14
Polyandry → Draupadi, Gautama, Hindu, Hiranyaksha's, However, Jatila, Kunti, Mahabharata, Pandava, Pracheti, Saptarishi, There, This, Yudhishthira
related to Africa · 9
Polyandry → Among, Central Africa, In, In August, Irigwe, Kenyan, Lake Region, Northern Nigeria, Polygyny
related to Associated polyandry · 9
Polyandry → Africa, Another, Cameroon, Equal, It, Nigeria, Other Classifications, Polygynandry, Usually
related to Culture · 8
Polyandry → According, An, BC, For, India, Lagash, Sumerian, Urukagina

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one among fraternal husbands brothers also marriage india wife married tibet two societies woman practice family found land polygyny husband

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Polyandryis acombination of polyandry and polygyny0.90text
villages in northern Nigeriainstance ofIt is found in some tribes of Africa0.80text
northern Camerooninstance ofIt is found in some tribes of Africa0.80text
the Maasai people in Kenyainstance ofand among some sub-Saharan Africans0.80text
northern Tanzaniainstance ofand among some sub-Saharan Africans0.80text
American indigenous communitiesinstance ofand among some sub-Saharan Africans0.80text
Polyandryrelated to AfricaIn0.60section
Polyandryrelated to AfricaLake Region0.60section
Polyandryrelated to AfricaCentral Africa0.60section
Polyandryrelated to AfricaPolygyny0.60section
Polyandryrelated to AfricaAmong0.60section
Polyandryrelated to AfricaIrigwe0.60section

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