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""One Bride for Two Brothers""

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Blogger Geoff Matthews said...

I would think that a system like this, where you have a large number of women who do not get married, would lead to either infanticide against daughter or prostitution for unmarried women.

7/16/10, 1:45 PM

Anonymous Billare said...

The article demonstrates the essential truth about polyandry, contrary to the fervent hopes of some cultural anthropologists who wished otherwise: it is basically the province of only desperately poor men, and even then only in severely challenging environments. Give them just a hint of modern wealth and the institution becomes non-existent.

7/16/10, 3:22 PM

Blogger kurt9 said...

Polyandry is presented in Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", which BTW is probably one the best pieces of social fiction ever written.

7/16/10, 4:10 PM

Anonymous rob said...

The practice also acted as a form of birth control. Five brothers with a wife each could easily produce dozens of children. But polyandrous families seldom had more than six or seven children.

It takes a rough environment to select for birth control practices. It would only get selected for when the opportunity cost of having a child then rather than later is high. Most tough environments are random enough that low discount rates aren't selected for. Environments that select for birth control also select for future time orientation (which corellates pretty well with IQ). Populations selected for "facultative" birth control typically end up shaping their environments to the extent that naturally repellent practices like sharing a woman that you also have to invest in are no longer necessary.

7/16/10, 4:21 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Since 1500BC, Hinduism has approved Multi-brother polyandry in special circumstances

Multibrother Polyandry shows up in the Mahabharata epic

In all cases, the multiple husbands are brothers

Non-brother husbands are not allowed

The castes who do this also do a high amount of female infanticide

This should go away as laws get more enforced

7/16/10, 4:27 PM

Blogger David said...

Steve has just written the next 100 years of material for Jewish comedians. Replace "cousin-marrying hicks" with "wife-sharing dots," and there you go.

This is going to wind up in "Borat 2" for sure, and you won't even be listed as a consultant.

7/16/10, 6:26 PM

Anonymous as said...

What happens to the extra women?

If some women are taking more than their fair share of men...

7/16/10, 6:57 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve,

I think it could easily be our womanly natures to have more than one husband in our lives. One can do the housework; the other can bring home the bacon; the other do the outside work; one of them could do the household accounting chores. And, of course, they all must be good in bed. all be a b

Bring it on!

7/16/10, 8:40 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is going to wind up in "Borat 2" for sure, and you won't even be listed as a consultant.

It wont because jews dont regard these Himalyan dwelling types as their enemy, hence no need to ridicule and denigrate them.

7/16/10, 9:48 PM

Anonymous Kylie said...

Anonymous said..."I think it could easily be our womanly natures to have more than one husband in our lives. One can do the housework; the other can bring home the bacon; the other do the outside work; one of them could do the household accounting chores. And, of course, they all must be good in bed."

And while the men are puttering around doing all that scutwork, the women will finally have time to advance medical research, develop the next generation of technology and maintain the infrastructure. I look forward to seeing what energy sources female scientists develop to replace those nasty old patriarchical fossil fuels.

7/17/10, 8:18 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Two or three women for the poor woman to clean up after and have cheat on her. I can't see this particular system working much better for women than polygamy. There would be tensions between the brothers over who got to sleep with the woman or who would HAVE to sleep with the woman if none of them was attracted or loved her or if one was more in love than the others. That's what happens in polygamous marriages between women. Constant power struggles. In a best case scenario, the brothers would see it as a joint business interest and would fight less over property.

7/17/10, 8:47 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

One can easily imagine that there is a fair bit of selection going on, both at the genetic level and at the level of the families the author chose to write about.

At the genetic level, we would expect to weed out genes the predisposed males to fight against these practices. Those that stayed and destroyed their reproductive success weeded themselves out of the gene pool. Others would simply leave for better areas.

At the level of the article, it is clear that they only selected the feel-good stories and the positives for those women who are too stupid to understand the ramifications.

7/17/10, 10:29 AM

Anonymous sabril said...

"What happens to the extra women? "

I was wondering this same thing. As I understand things, polyandry mainly took place in landed families. So the extra women in landed families would be free to marry unlanded men.

Also, I would guess that a man in a polyandrous marriage (or any marriage for that manner) would be free to take a mistress if he can find one.

So basically I think that one should not assume that polyandry is the mirror image of polygamy. One should not assume that a man in a polyandrous marriage is expected to be faithful to his wife just as a wife in a polygamous marriage is expected to be faithful to her husband.

7/17/10, 5:43 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

extra women can also be sold or otherwise transferred to richer neighboring groups, castes, nations etc. If they had internecine warfare and slave rading, female captives would be a natural commodity for export. Just look at the west to east female slave trade in precolonial Africa.

7/17/10, 6:35 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

These castes practise female infanticide and in some cases, sell off their daughters to prostitution

7/17/10, 9:18 PM

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