Polygyny

the previous factors played a role in domestic violence (Das et al.). After the conduction of 42 interviews of those who sought help, they learned that “demands for dowry, poverty, a wife’s financial and emotional dependency, extramarital affairs, polygyny, the desire for a male child, an ingrained culture of violence and so on,” all were causes of domestic violence toward married women in Bangladesh (Das et al.). As a result, escaping the abusive relationships proved extremely difficult, even…

Arranged marriage is not uncommon and is ordinarily based on the bride price. Temporary matrilocal residence is customary and may last for an extended period of time if the wife’s mother does not have male hunters. Polygyny is not forbidden to the Ojibwa, but is rare. Residential units are often a combination of several generations living in one household. Even now, grandparents still may reside with a nuclear family. Although this opposes normal patrilineal patterns…

Wring Women’s Worlds, which was originally published in 1993, is the collection of these narratives. The book, which is centered around Grandmother Migdim and her family members, discusses: (1) patrilineality, (2) polygyny, (3) reproduction, (4) patrilateral parallel-cousin marriage, and (5) honor and shame. Some of the key topics that are discussed by the Bedouin men and women include: differences between the roles of sons and daughters; arguments between family members;…

Family has always been an important pillar of my life. I come from a strong household with both a mother and father and a younger brother. We are extremely close knit and rely on each other for a lot of things. In high school, many families mirrored what my family looked like. It was not until I came to college that I really understood how different people’s family units look like. This sample was more realistic of the family patterns across the United States. Families come in all shapes and…

Within the book Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota written by Jon D. Holtzman, he follows a group of people called the Nuer. Within the book Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives written by Jon D. Holtzman, he follows a group of people called the Nuer. Holtzman describes the Nuer in more detail as being agro-pastoralists and relying on a mixed economy of animal farming and cultivation in order to survive. They have been classified as members of both the Nilotic cultural and linguistic…

The television show ‘Rendez-vous en Terre Inconnue’ presents the lives of four different ethnic groups around the world, the Lolos Noirs in Vietnam, the Amharas in northern Ethiopia, the Nyangatom in southern Ethiopia, and the Tsaatans in Mongolia. Anthropologist Frédéric Michalak, along with a french celebrity guest, spend two weeks living these groups, immersing themselves in the lives of the ‘others’ through participant observation, eating the local’s foods and partaking in the local’s work,…

The Essentialism Perspective on Promiscuity and the Societal Repercussions Throughout western history, there has been one main belief that has prevailed regarding men and women’s sexuality: that sexual motivation is influenced by the physiological differences between the sexes and accounts for their variances in behavior. This essentialism approach to sexuality, developed with the advancement of evolutionary psychology, which states that all living things maintain a fixed biological,…

change the natives’ culture. According to Ann Marie Plane, professor of colonial North America at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Colonial Intimacies, the colonists frowned upon the indigenous peoples’ practices of premarital sex, polygyny, and easy divorce which were viewed as sins. To change the natives’ ways, the colonists started to marry the natives. The English used these marriages as a way to get the natives to change their ways voluntarily by marrying into a Puritan…

Polygyny is practiced in 50% of the societies and monogamy in 38% of the societies. High status men have many concubines and mistresses but are allowed to have only one wife. Predominant manner of long term mating was arranged marriage, with parents choosing…

PARENTAL CARE IN FISHES Caring of young ones by the parent is known as the parental care. Infact, parental care is very important for survival. Parental care has evolved across the animal kingdom to increase the probability of offspring surviving in an environment fraught with danger. Parental care is common among mammals and birds.…