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Перевод: polygamy

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полигамия ; многобрачие
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Тезаурус:

1. The tyrants of classical Sicily did indeed behave like the kings of hellenistic Greek history, intermarrying (with a vengeance: they practised polygamy), shifting populations around (Gelon's transfer of capital and population to Syracuse), and building on a heroic scale.
2. "They need to find themselves a decent bloke," said William's nan once, presumably meaning four decent blokes as she was not a great advocate of polygamy.
3. Polygamy, the general term for this behaviour, is widespread in the bird world, and takes a bewildering variety of forms.
4. Institutions such as polygamy are seen by Engels as mere variants on the institution of monogamy.
5. They also expressed reservations over the concept of minority rights: "Britain, for example, does not allow polygamy even though certain of its citizens accept it from their religious convictions" (Irish Episcopal Conference 1984: 18).
6. Some Cichlids and Catfish can spawn with more than one group of females what type of polygamy is this called?
7. The Riders, like most of the characters of Beowulf but unlike all we can guess of the real pre-Christian English, do not worship pagan gods; they also do not hold slaves, commit incest, practise polygamy.
8. This does not imply an absence of norms, nor does it incorporate an implicit racism: rather, polygamy and divorce are the norms, leading to a wide range of local, unstable types.
9. (It is interesting that in arguing that polygamy grows out of monogamy Engels was reversing the evolutionary sequence as most anthropologists of his time saw it.)
10. In 1985 however, the Law Commission did recommend that a marriage entered into by a man or woman domiciled in England and Wales should not be invalid merely because it is entered into under a law which permits polygamy, provided that neither party is already married.
11. Within the bird world as a whole, these conflicting interests are resolved in a huge variety of ways, from the steadfast monogamy of the majority of birds to the bewildering polygamy of the dunnock, and from the resplendent tail feathers of the male widow-bird to the male pied flycatcher's deceit.
12. This was the simultaneous introduction of several indissolubly linked institutions: monogamy (which later gave rise to polyandry and polygamy), the nuclear family, private property (the property of the nuclear family), the change in the rule of descent from the female line to the male line, the subordination and humiliation of women, and the State.
13. It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy, Syl, now that he was getting older and had less energy, should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me.