Download or read book The Dynamics of Polyandry written by Nancy E. Levine and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Woman Many Husbands written by A a Castor and published by A.A. Castor. This book was released on 2024-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title: One Woman, Many Husbands: The Polyandry Playbook Description: In a world where traditional relationship norms are increasingly being questioned, One Woman, Many Husbands: The Polyandry Playbook offers a groundbreaking exploration of polyandry-one woman in a committed relationship with multiple husbands. This comprehensive guide takes readers on a journey through the rich history, cultural significance, and modern interpretations of polyandry, revealing its potential to redefine love, commitment, and family in the 21st century. From the ancient practices of Tibet and South Asia to the challenges and triumphs of modern polyandrous families, this book delves into the complex dynamics of multi-husband marriages. It offers practical advice on building stability, managing emotions, and ensuring sexual and emotional fulfillment across multiple relationships. Readers will learn how to navigate social stigma, legal hurdles, and the intricacies of maintaining harmony in a polyandrous household. One Woman, Many Husbands also looks ahead, examining the influence of global trends, technology, and cultural exchange on the future of polyandry. With insights into promoting cross-cultural acceptance and adapting polyandry to modern contexts, this book is both a guide for those considering polyandry and a thought-provoking exploration for anyone interested in the evolving landscape of relationships. Whether you're curious about polyandry, considering it for yourself, or simply interested in the diverse possibilities of human relationships, One Woman, Many Husbands provides a comprehensive and compassionate look at a relationship structure that challenges convention and celebrates love in its many forms.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Polyandry written by Nancy E. Levine and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Return of Polyandry written by Heidi E. Fjeld and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- The return of polyandry -- Trajectories into houses -- Fraternal relations -- Female roles -- The house as ritual space -- Moral networks and enduring hierarchies -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix. Timeline -- Glossary of Tibetan terms.
Download or read book Dynamics of Polyandry in Spotted Sandpipers Actitis Macularius Ornamentation Reproductive Success and Testosterone written by Misha Aurelia Blizard and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Females can compete for mates and resources, resulting in differential reproductive success, and thus, experience sexual selection pressures. To examine the influence of sexual selection on female morphology, physiology, and behavior, I investigated spotted sandpipers (Actitis macularius), a bird species in which the typical 'sex roles' are reversed: females face greater competition for mates than males and males predominantly provide parental care. Specifically, I examined whether females have evolved ornamentation that signals individual quality to potential mates or female competitors. To do so, I considered degree of plumage ornamentation (i.e. ventral melanized spots present only during the breeding season), individual condition, reproductive success, and testosterone (a steroid hormone known to regulate male aggression in vertebrates). I determined that females were more ornamented than males in terms of spot size and percent plumage cover. Compared to less ornamented females, those with more ornamentation had fewer ectoparasites, were heavier, had higher hematocrit levels, and were more reproductively successful. Other than ectoparasite load, these patterns were not observed across males. Although 18% - 33% of females in the population were polyandrous, males and females were genetically monogamous to their current mate, perhaps due to the chance of nest abandonment by the male. Considering testosterone as a possible proximate mechanism of female aggression, males had more testosterone than females, but only during courtship, after which male testosterone levels dropped. Female testosterone levels, however, remained constant from courtship to incubation, potentially indicative of the continued competition that females experience throughout the breeding season. Furthermore, females challenged with a simulated territorial intrusion had higher testosterone levels than unchallenged females. In summary, female plumage pattern is an honest signal, likely communicating condition and reproductive ability to conspecifics during courtship or competitive female-female interactions. Additionally, testosterone appears to play a functional role in regulating female aggression.
Download or read book Polygamy written by Sarah M. S. Pearsall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy's surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, indigenous communities, and segments of the American nation. Polygamy--as well as the fight against it--illuminates many touchstones of American history: the Pueblo Revolt and other uprisings against the Spanish; Catholic missions in New France; New England settlements and King Philip's War; the entrenchment of African slavery in the Chesapeake; the Atlantic Enlightenment; the American Revolution; missions and settlement in the West; and the rise of Mormonism. Pearsall expertly opens up broader questions about monogamy's emergence as the only marital option, tracing the impact of colonial events on property, theology, feminism, imperialism, and the regulation of sexuality. She shows that heterosexual monogamy was never the only model of marriage in North America.
Download or read book The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America written by Paul Valentine and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Foremost scholars of indigenous Amazonia explore the vast and interesting gap between rules and practice, demonstrating how sociocultural systems endure and even prosper due to the flexibility, creativity, and resilience of the people within them."--Jeremy M. Campbell, author of Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon "A landmark volume and a major contribution to the study of kinship and marriage in Amazonian societies, an area of the world that has been pivotal to our understanding of the biocultural dimensions of cousin marriage and polygamy."--Nancy E. Levine, author of The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity, and Population on the Tibetan Border This volume reveals that individuals in Amazonian cultures often disregard or reinterpret the marriage rules of their societies—rules that anthropologists previously thought reflected practice. It is the first book to consider not just what the rules are but how people in these societies negotiate, manipulate, and break them in choosing whom to marry. Using ethnographic case studies that draw on previously unpublished material from well-known indigenous cultures, The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America defies the tendency to focus only on the social structure of kinship and marriage that is so common in kinship studies. Instead, the contributors to this volume examine the people that conform to or deviate from that structure and their reasons for doing so. They look not only at deviations in kinship behavior motivated by gender, economics, politics, history, ecology, and sentimentality but also at how globalization and modernization are changing the ancestral norms and values themselves. This is a richly diverse portrayal of agency and individual choice alongside normative kinship and marriage systems in a region that has long been central to anthropological studies of indigenous life. Paul Valentine is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of East London. Stephen Beckerman is adjunct professor at the University of Utah. Together, Valentine and Beckerman have coedited Revenge in the Cultures of Lowland South America and Cultures of Multiple Fathers: The Theory and Practice of Partible Paternity in Lowland South America. Catherine Alès is director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, and is the author of Yanomami, l’ire et le désir.
Download or read book RETURN OF POLYANDRY written by HEIDI E. FJELD and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Polygamy written by Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and religions. The amazing variation, versatility and adaptability of polygamy underscore that it is not just an exotic non-Western practice, but also exists in modern Western societies. Polygamy: A Cross-cultural Analysis provides an examination and analysis of historical and contemporary polygamy. It outlines polygamy's place in anthropological theory and its rich sociocultural diversity in countries ranging from the USA and UK to Malaysia, India, regions of Africa and Tibet. Polygamy also addresses often difficult and controversial issues facing modern polygamists, such as prejudice, HIV/AIDS and women's emancipation. Polygamy: A Cross-cultural Analysis offers an anthropological overview of the fascinating yet often misunderstood institution of polygamy.
Download or read book Polyandry and Wife Selling in Qing Dynasty China written by Matthew H. Sommer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polyandry. "Getting a husband to support a husband." Attitudes of families, communities, and women toward polyandry. The intermediate range of practice -- Wife-selling. Anatomy of a wife sale. Analysis of prices in wife sales. Negotiations between men in wife sales. Wives, natal families, and children. Four variations on a theme -- Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing law. Formal law and central court interpretation from Ming through high Qing. Absolutism versus pragmatism in central court treatment of wife sales. Flexible adjudication of routine cases in the local courts.
Download or read book Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society written by Irwin Altman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-26 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book examines marital relationships in contemporary Mormon polygamous families.
Download or read book The Other Side Of Polyandry written by Sidney Ruth Schuler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides demographic data on polyandry and nonmarriage, exploring the social and economic context of nonmarriage and its implications vis-a-vis the position of women in the Nepal. It fills gaps in the literature on Tibetan societies with respect to stratification and the position of women.
Download or read book Mating Systems and Strategies written by Stephen M. Shuster and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concept of the opportunity for sexual selection, the authors illustrate how and why sexual selection, though restricted to one sex and opposed in the other, is one of the strongest and fastest of all evolutionary forces. They offer a statistical framework for studying mating system evolution and apply it to patterns of alternative mating strategies. In doing so, they provide a method for quantifying how the strength of sexual selection is affected by the ecological and life history processes that influence females' spatial and temporal clustering and reproductive schedules. Directly challenging verbal evolutionary models that attempt to explain reproductive behavior without quantitative reference to evolutionary genetics, this book establishes a more solid theoretical foundation for the field. Among the weaknesses the authors find in the existing data is the apparent ubiquity of condition-dependent mating tactics. They identify factors likely to contribute to the evolution of alternative mating strategies--which they argue are more common than generally believed--and illustrate how to measure the strength of selection acting on them. Lastly, they offer predictions on the covariation of mating systems and strategies, consider the underlying developmental biology behind male polyphenism, and propose directions for future research. Informed by genetics, this is a comprehensive and rigorous new approach to explaining mating systems and strategies that will influence a wide swath of evolutionary biology.
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology Volume 4 Controversies Applications and Nonhuman Primate Extensions written by Todd K. Shackelford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 1207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interface of sexual behavior and evolutionary psychology is a rapidly growing domain, rich in psychological theories and data as well as controversies and applications. With nearly eighty chapters by leading researchers from around the world, and combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work in the field. Providing a broad yet in-depth overview of the various evolutionary principles that influence all types of sexual behaviors, the handbook takes an inclusive approach that draws on a number of disciplines and covers nonhuman and human psychology. It is an essential resource for both established researchers and students in psychology, biology, anthropology, medicine, and criminology, among other fields. Volume 4: Controversies, Applications, and Nonhuman Primate Extensions addresses controversies and unresolved issues; applications to health, law, and pornography; and non-human primate evolved sexual psychology.
Download or read book The Metamorphoses of Kinship written by Maurice Godelier and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-03-03 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partners, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux. In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier contextualizes these developments, surveying the accumulated experience of humanity with regard to such phenomena as the organization of lines of descent, sexuality and sexual prohibitions. In parallel, Godelier studies the evolution of Western conjugal and familial traditions from their roots in the nineteenth century to the present. The conclusion he draws is that it is never the case that a man and a woman are sufficient on their own to raise a child, and nowhere are relations of kinship or the family the keystone of society. Godelier argues that the changes of the last thirty years do not herald the disappearance or death agony of kinship, but rather its remarkable metamorphosis—one that, ironically, is bringing us closer to the “traditional” societies studied by ethnologists.
Download or read book Intimacies written by William R. Jankowiak and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how different cultures rationalize the expression of passionate and comfort love and physical sex. --From publisher description.
Download or read book Invitation to Anthropology written by Luke Eric Lassiter and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lassiter's accessible introduction to anthropology encourages students to evaluate its relevance in our increasingly complex world. Part I focuses on the underlying assumptions and concepts that have driven anthropological theory and practice since its modern inception. Part II explores cross-cultural human issues showing how anthropological studies offer relevant insight into human beings and valuable models for thinking and acting. Invitation to Anthropology is an ideal text for undergraduate students, easily supplemented with case studies in anthropology.
