polygyny
101More danico — The phrase more danico[1] is a Mediaeval Latin legalistic expression which may be translated as in the Danish manner or by Norse customary law . It designates a type of traditional Germanic marriage practiced in northern Europe during the Middle… …
102Current state of polygamy in the Latter Day Saint movement — Mormonism and polygamy Members of Joseph F. Smith s family, including his sons and daughters, as well as their spouses and children, circa 1900 …
103Yerukala tribe social customs — The information is about the Yerukala tribe social customs. Families Yerukala families are usually nuclear but that is changing in sync with the 21st century Indian society. Descent is patrilineal (tracing descent through the paternal line),… …
104Australian Aborigine — aborigine (def. 2). * * * ▪ people Introduction any of the indigenous people of Australia. Australia is the only continent where the entire indigenous population maintained a single kind of adaptation hunting and gathering (hunting and… …
105Chewa — /chay wah/, n. 1. a member of a Bantu speaking people of Malawi. 2. Also called Chichewa. the Bantu language of the Chewa people, widely spoken in Malawi. Also, Cewa. * * * Bantu speaking people of eastern Zambia, northwestern Zimbabwe, and… …
106group marriage — (among primitive peoples) a form of marriage in which a group of males is united with a group of females to form a single conjugal unit. Also called communal marriage. [1895 1900] * * * the marriage of several men with several women. As an… …
107kraal — /krahl/, n. 1. an enclosure for cattle and other domestic animals in southern Africa. 2. a village of the native peoples of South Africa, usually surrounded by a stockade or the like and often having a central space for livestock. 3. such a… …
108Plains Indian — a member of any of the American Indian tribes, as those of the Algonquian, Athabascan, Caddoan, Kiowa, Siouan, or Uto Aztecan linguistic families, that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. All were more or less nomadic, following the buffalo, and …
109Plateau Indian — Any member of various North American Indian peoples that inhabited the high plateau between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Cascade Range on the west. The Plateau culture was not stable. By AD 1200–1300 the classic phase had emerged,… …
110Melanesian culture — ▪ cultural region, Pacific Ocean Introduction the beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of the ethnogeographic group of Pacific Islands known as Melanesia. From northwest to southeast, the islands form an arc that begins with New… …
