AAS 17 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Matriarchy, Industrial Revolution, Suicide
30 May 2018
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1/22/18 – Polygamy
Polygamy?
• Cheating
o No public recognition.
• “Swingers”
o Couples who engage in recreational, sexual intercourse with other couples.
o Both together agree. Not like cheating where one person doesn’t know.
• Polyamory
o A couple invites one or more people into their relationship.
• None of the above are examples of polygamy.
o Polygamy is a form of marriage.
o No legal rights attached to above examples.
o Recognition among partners but not the rest of society, not even the family, with the
above examples.
o Polygamy is instances where people extend public recognition and legal rights to
multiple people.
Polygamy
• A type of marriage, not simply sexual access to multiple partners.
• A marriage involving multiple spouses.
• Polygyny: one man, several wives.
• Polyandry: one woman, several husbands.
Both Polygyny and Monogamy
• Both are arrangements of patriarchal societies.
o Both emerged so that men could have the most power.
• Agrarian (or farming) societies.
o Agrarian society is where the substantial population in that society is involved in
farming.
o Substantial societies in Africa are agrarian.
o If farming, have to stay put. Can’t be moving all over the place.
o Had an impact on how human societies organized marriage.
o Wealth linked to procreation in agrarian societies.
• Industrialization
o Introduction of technology into human societies.
o Big impact on marriage.
• Productivity in human societies affect marriage.
• Marriage designed to enhance access to wealth.
o Whether its polygyny or monogamy.
Document Summary
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