If this can be proved, exogamous Aryans either passed through polyandrous institutions, or borrowed a savage custom derived from a period when ideas of kinship were obscure.
They live, or did live, in polyandrous associations.
Mr. Atkinson writes this to show that there can be no connection between these groups of young males and the polyandrous marriages of Mr. McLennan's theory.
It is, therefore, probable the young men at first kept together, sharing their wives inpolyandrous union.
According to this definition, there may be monogamous, polygamous and polyandrous marriages, as well as marriage in groups and limited marriage.
In woman, the hysterical imagination and dissociation facilitate a polyandrous irradiation of the sexual appetite, which is otherwise rare in the female sex.
History and ethnography show us that polygamous races are strongly developed and are still developing; on the other hand, it is true that polyandrous races degenerate.
Such women are usually polyandrousby nature, although the sexual appetite in woman is normally much more monogamous than that of man.
Among polyandrous peoples the husbands are not all on the same footing of equality, some hold an inferior position, corresponding nearly to that of concubines, another sign of the tendency to monogamy.
Among the polyandrous people of Thibet jealousy appears to be completely absent: this may be the result of custom or may be due to phylogenetic instinct.
The Cingalese were polyandrous before the English conquest, and so many as seven men had one wife in common.
Nymphomaniacs often have polyandrous instincts, and they then become more insatiable than men.
Polyandry is usually the result of poverty, and the polyandrousraces are little fecund and tend to disappear.
A man may be polygamous in one village, and be one of a polyandrous lot of men a few miles off.
His most recent statement involves the theory that the method of the Nairs of Malabar, living inpolyandrous households (many men to each woman) was the earliest form of 'marriage.
Insufficient food-supply may cause polygynic and monogamic families to die out; and it is favorable to the survival of the polyandrous family.
As a matter of fact, the chief polyandrous peoples either live in sterile mountain regions, or are endogamous in a very high degree.
Now, it is a significant fact that polyandrous peoples show a tendency to close intermarriage among kindred; while polyandrous countries are notoriously poor.
But the infertility of polyandrous families is unfavorable to their survival, for there are fewer members available for defense.
But McLennan meets this difficulty by insisting that wife-stealing, among polyandrous peoples would lead to polygyny on the part of the most successful.
We begin to see also why tribes following polyandrous habits endeavor to prevent further complications by making widows 'remain in the family.
Incident to the matriarchate are the polygynous and polyandrous forms of the family.
Well, the fact that she is polyandrous implies that every male in her sphere of influence is not always capable of satisfying her sexual instinct.
Any increase, however, in the number of women does not appear to have led to any great diminution of polyandrous marriages, but polyandry is often combined with polygyny.
The Todas have long been noted as a polyandrous people, and the institution of polyandry is still in full working order among them.
In the human race the family consisting of father, mother, and offspring is probably a universal institution, whether founded on a monogamous, polygynous, or polyandrous marriage.
In polyandrous families the husbands are most frequently brothers, and the eldest brother, at least in many cases, has the superiority.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polyandrous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
