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Polygyny has often been associated with the Mormon and Islamic faiths, although attitudes toward the practice vary enormously within those religious communities.
Law is Cool Podcast: Polygamy and the Law : Law is Cool 2009
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He wrote The Man Called Deng Majok: A Biography of Power, Polygyny, and Change (Yale University Press, 1986) about his father, the renowned Paramount Chief of the Ngok Dinka in the Sudan, which Francis was kind enough to autograph for me.
Jim Luce: Meet the U.N. Secretary General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide 2009
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Polygyny tends to increase the market value of a woman, for the obvious economic reason.
Polygamy: Economics vs. History, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Also the reason Polygamy is taken to mean Polygyny is that our evolved temperments don't lend themselves easily to a men sharing a partner.
Are You Big Enough to Tolerate Polygamy?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Polygyny, practiced occasionally but never truly accepted by the community in the nineteenth century and early twentieth, has virtually disappeared.
Bene Israel. 2009
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“Polygyny” is the technical term for what Mormons practiced, and continue to practice via temple marriages when a spouse dies.
LDS Church Handbook of Instructions available via WikiLeaks | Mind on Fire 2008
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“Polygyny”, on the other hand, refers to polygamy in which one man has two or more wives.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Polygyny–(Biological term) or polygamy –(legal term)ie, one husband taking more than one wife–is far more common.
confetti 2006
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Polygyny is an important component in that matrix of abuse and exploitation.
Beyond Marriage 2006
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Polygyny had some social utility, because it increased the number of children, and this gave added prestige and power to the family, as slavery had utility because it provided a labor force; but both were weaknesses in ancient society, because they did not tend in the long run to human welfare.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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