A Cross-Cultural Summary: Polygyny

In societies with high rates of avoidance for a son's wife, marriages will tend to not be polygynous and sororal (247, 258).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact Test	Marginally Supported	p = .083	Phi = .261	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Polygynous Marriage	Association	Polygamy
Son's Wife Avoidance	Association	Avoidance And Taboo

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Stephens, William N.	1962	"We predicted a positive correlation between duration of the post partum sex taboo and severity of [son's wife] avoidance" (132)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kitahara, Michio	1975	"The segregation of males at puberty is more closely correlated to the polygynous societies in which each co-wife lives with her children in a separate quarter than to a long postpartum sexual taboo" (7).	`UNKNOWN`	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple	1966	"Residence proved to be unrelated to avoidance [of parents-in-law] by either husband or wife" (313)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Jankowiak, William	2005	"There will be less competition between postmenopausal and reproductively nubile women [in polygynous marriage] as women age" (84).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kitahara, Michio	1976	Polygynous societies, where cowives and their children live in separate quarters, will be positively associated with male segregation at puberty (205-206)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author