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adelphic polyandry

marriage custom

Also known as: fraternal polyandry

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polyandry

In polyandry
…brothers, the institution is called adelphic, or fraternal, polyandry. Polygyny, the marriage of a man and two or more women at the same time, includes an analogous sororal form.
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