polygyny
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While polygyny - the marriage of a man to several women - is allowed in South Africa, such relationships are usually registered as customary marriages and are not celebrated in church.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
In resourced-based polygyny, males compete for territories with the best resources, and then mate with females that enter the territory, drawn to its resource richness.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
That’s why some 16 million men today can trace their ancestry back to Genghis Khan, a tyrant who pushed polygyny to its physical limits.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2015
As marriage historian Stephanie Coontz has pointed out, polygyny is less about sex than it is about power.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2012
But it does not follow that polyandry and a matriarchal state always and necessarily preceded polygyny and a patriarchal state.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
