Polyandry
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
A hypothesized primitive marriage system, one wife with several husbands, invoked in McLennan's theory of the Levirate's origin.
This promiscuity became limited by Polyandry, one wife having several husbands.
Totemism (or the origin of the conception of kinship in the mark placed by savages on their bodies), the slaughter of female children, woman-stealing, polyandry (or a plurality of recognised husbands), and the well-known Levirate, play a great part in the system of Mr.
If they suffered from a scarcity of women, such phenomena as polyandry and a tracing of kinship through women would probably show themselves, and at any stage of social growth.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The plural marriage of one woman to several men, made the engine of matrilineal descent by McLennan and Smith and rejected here on demographic grounds, since war kills men and leaves women the more numerous.
From this there arose, in his belief, an increase in the number of the men, so that every company of them was forced to content itself with a single woman, and this is polyandry;
The author of the totemism of the Arabs holds that the prevalence of the burying alive of daughters in the Jāhilīyah made the daughters few, so that they were forced to share the women, several men sharing in one woman, begetting children of her, and descent being traced to her (page 30).
and that the woman be a wife to several men together, her children being traced to her.