The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck

Author:Edward Westermarck [Westermarck, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780722219959
Google: WxkMAAAAYAAJ
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1891-01-15T02:43:09+00:00

Bigamy is the most common form of polygyny, and a multitude of wives is the luxury of a few despotic rulers or very wealthy men. The Eskimo, for example, have rarely more than two wives, and a Greenlander who took a third or fourth was blamed by his countrymen, as we are told by Cranz.2813 The tribes of Oregon generally confine themselves to a couple of wives.2814 Bishop Salvado never knew a West Australian native with more than two—“à moins peut-être que par générosité un homme ne prenne sous sa protection la femme de son ami ou parent absent; ou bien que par voie d’hérédité il n’adopte les veuves de son frère.”2815 Rich Kafirs are stated to have commonly two or three wives;2816 and Colonel Dalton does not recollect that, among the Khamtis, he ever met with a case in which more than two women were married to one husband.2817 The Hebrews who indulged in polygyny were generally bigamists.2818

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