Polygyny

Primate parenting have a lot of features which can be considered different from other mammal. One of the biggest difference could be the parental investment which is the amount of time the average parent spends with it's off spring after birth and further gives it the skills of survival or maybe just social skills to survive in the group. Primates especially females spend a lot of time caring for their off springs by teaching them skills like termite fishing and further grooming them. Female…

greater fairness in relationships, including polygamy. However, polygamy is still a touchy subject with its more recent and more radical history. It is essential for polygamy to be kept from any future marriage equality changes in American because polygyny causes emotional, and sometimes physical, damage to the wives, creates gender inequalities toward women, and would also create a generation of children that do not have proper social fulfillment. Although polygamy falls under a religious right…

(h161) Polygyny is accepted and legal in many countries. Marriage to more than one wife is popular in cultures which practise wealth-generating polygyny and support themselves through agriculture and farm work. (h161) A marriage can benefit from multiple wives because the women can help work on the farms to better the economic situation. (h161) In many cases the wives want their husband to marry more women as it would be more economically productive. (h161) Many women believe polygyny gives them…

countries choose monogamy as the legal default marriage form. One of basic advantages of monogamy is equality. Because the sex ratio of a society is almost equal to 1:1, monogamy is the best way to pair each individual with a partner. In the case of polygyny, one man will have several wives, which means some other men will have no wives at all. Only the strongest man can have reproduction success. In order to reproduce, other men need to fight to get wives, which will cause violence and the…

to culture, whether it may be monogamy, polygyny, or polyandry. These concepts are usually cultural constructed as society changes through its values, religions, or way of life. Since their arrival from the Tibetan plateau about 200 years ago, the Nyimba people of northwest Nepal have adapted a polyandry marriage culture. Meaning, for every family of brothers, they have one wife. Now, this concept of marriage is extremely different from monogamy and polygyny that one typical hears about. In a…

According to dictionary.com; polygyny is defined as the practice or condition of having more than one wife at one time. dictionary.com also says polyandry is the practice or condition of having more than one husband at one time. Many societies practice both polygyny and polyandry across the world. However, still to this day, polygyny and polyandry are restricted in many religions and countries and these relationships are often not properly recognized amongst every culture. Both of these can be…

this could stem from my overall interest in anything pertaining to the American Indian culture. The fact that scholars can narrow down to more than twenty percent of the marriages were polygyny astonished me. Not singling out the capabilities of scholars to roughly guess a percent but that so many of them lived polygyny lives in their tribes. Not only is it fascinating how their marriages were handled but at what age women were married shocked me. At the young age of twelve to fifteen, I was…

The Irua is known as female circumcision, it is “the cutting of the external genital excision, especially of the clitoris, and was performed by trained older women” (Davidson, 24). It is an important passage to adulthood, of making into being an adult for these girls that get this procedure. The important it has on these women in the Mt. Kenya region is significant. These girls know that when this procedure comes, they are ready to be an adult. It’s a right-of-passage, every girl wants to be a…

compare an aspect of another culture from an insider’s perspective in order to become more aware with the motivations behind the practice. Specifically, I will discuss the condition of higher education in America, contrasted with the practice of polygyny among African families to show how Sub-Saharan Africans view as “normal” in a larger context, and while revealing what may appear different and oppressive to and outsider, although it seems to be a complex practice to an insider than an outsider…

For example, female strepsirrhines live in a solitary territory with their off-springs and have a monogamous relationship with their chosen mate. Most primates live in polygyny group that has either one or more male and more than one female. There’s one male polygyny when one male monopolized all the females while muti-male polygyny the alpha male allows other males to join his group and he allows them access to the females but still…