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
Adult relationships vary in form across societies and include not only the type most common around the world today — heterosexual monogamy — but also same-sex marriage, nonmarital unions, polyamory, polygyny and polyandry.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022
A third type of polygyny is a lek system.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
As marriage historian Stephanie Coontz has pointed out, polygyny is less about sex than it is about power.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2012
Among all peoples at a certain stage the honor of wife capture has alone been a prolific cause of polygyny.
From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)
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