Sororal Polygyny
Associated Documents (3)
| Main Author | Published Year | Title | Document Type | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murdock, George Peter | Bifurcate merging: a test of five theories | Article | |||
| Murdock, George Peter | Social structure | Book | |||
| Flinn, Mark V. | Resource distribution, social competition, and mating patterns in human societies | Chapter | |||
Associated Hypotheses (4)
| Main Author | Published Year | Hypothesis | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murdock, George Peter | 1947 | ". . . rules of preferential mating, especially the levirate and sororate, may produce . . . [bifurcate merging]" (60) | |
| Murdock, George Peter | 1949 | "In the presence of sororal polygyny, terms for primary relatives tend to be extended, within the same sex and generation, to their collateral relatives through females" (141) | |
| Murdock, George Peter | 1949 | "Sororal polygyny tends to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type for aunts and for nieces by marriage" (143) | |
| Flinn, Mark V. | 1986 | Sororal polygyny will be associated with cross-cousin marriages (236). |