Polygamy: Difference between revisions

====Incidence====

{{Main|Polyandry}}

 

Polyandry is believed to be more common in societies with scarce environmental resources, as it is believed to limit human population growth and enhance child survival.<ref name=Stone2006>{{cite book |first=Linda |last=Stone |title=Kinship and Gender |year=2006 |publisher=Westview |isbn=9780813348629 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XjRWDgAAQBAJ }}</ref> It is a rare form of marriage that exists not only among poor families, but also the elite.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://case.edu/affil/tibet/booksAndPapers/pahari.html |jstor=3773200 |title=Pahari and Tibetan Polyandry Revisited |last1=Goldstein |first1=Melvyn C. |journal=Ethnology |year=1978 |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=325–337 |doi=10.2307/3773200 |access-date=26 August 2021 |archive-date=26 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826162501/https://case.edu/affil/tibet/booksAndPapers/pahari.html |url-status=live }}</ref> For example, in the Himalayan Mountains polyandry is related to the scarcity of land; the marriage of all brothers in a family to the same wife allows family land to remain intact and undivided.<ref name="Starkweather2012" /> If every brother married separately and had children, family land would be split into unsustainable small plots. In Europe, this outcome was avoided through the social practice of [[Historical inheritance systems|impartible inheritance]], under which most siblings would be disinherited.<ref>{{cite book |last=Levine |first=Nancy |title=The Dynamics of polyandry: kinship, domesticity, and population on the Tibetan border |year=1998 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago}}</ref>