Translation of "Polyandry" in German

Do we need to take these practices of polygamy and polyandry over in our cultures?

On the next stage of civilization they then entered a matriarchal phase characterized by polyandry.

Polyandry was common in the Ladakhi Society.

In Tibet as well, both polygamy and polyandry were commonly practiced.

This phenomenon is called polyandry.

The mating system is flexible and may contain: monogamy, polyandry, polygyny and polygynandry.

All long-continued customs have been sovereignly useful in their time, even totemism and polyandry.

Islam forbids polyandry, meaning having two or more husbands.)

His research focuses on Tibetan society, history and contemporary politics, population studies, polyandry, studies in cultural and development ecology, economic change and cross-cultural gerontology.

The African black coucal is the only known bird species that combines an altricial development of young with such a sex-role reversed breeding system, termed 'classical polyandry'.

There is no trace in OT of a plurality of husbands (polyandry), though the Levirate is sometimes suspected to be a survival.

Group marriages gradually gave way before the emerging practices of polygamy—polygyny and polyandry—among the more advanced tribes.

Polygyny and polyandry (collectively called polygamy) were once practiced in various parts of the world, but now seem to be on the decline.

There may be legitimate sociological arguments why polygamy (and polyandry) should be banned in some countries and not in others.

As the men excluded from polygyny cannot console themselves with the women left over from polyandry, and as hitherto, regardless of social institutions, the number of men and women has been fairly equal, it is obviously impossible for either of these forms of marriage to be elevated to the general form.

The team of researchers led by Dustin Penn explored the previously unanswered question whether polyandry in house mice also offered an advantage in terms of immune resistance.

A similar exception is the polyandry of India and Tibet, the origin of which in group marriage requires closer examination and would certainly prove interesting.

And this is the man who, from Tacitus' report on the close relationship between maternal uncle and sister's son among the Germans (Germania, Chap. 20), from Caesar's report that the Britons in groups of ten or twelve possessed their wives in common, from all the other reports of classical authors on community of wives among barbarians, calmly draws the conclusion that all these peoples lived in a state of polyandry!