| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["people"],"appCategory":"people","appTitle":"Are there societies or cultures (current or historical) where no gender is expected to be monogamous?","appBody":"<p><strong>Hi, this is a very interesting question</strong></p>\n<p>A large part of traditional matrilineal and matrilocal societies, where women continue to live in the same home with their sisters, their mother and aunts, and men in another house live with their sisters. An example is the traditional society of the Mosuo in China (on which have been written some exaggerations \"third wave\", which simply are not true, so be careful what you read on certain pages). In these societies, women have a room on the street, at night they are frequently visited by their partners (they may have more than one, they may be the father of one of their children, etc).</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Another documented and famous example is the one documented by Bronisław Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands (within the cultural sphere of New Guinea). Apparently in those islands people had sex with many couples from 14 or 15 years, so often that in fact there was much awareness of the causal link between sex and pregnancy (or at least the allocation of paternity). Similar reports are mentioned about the small and tiny island of Tikopia, where the Christian missionaries decided to end the happiness of the people by explaining some biological facts in addition to the Christian doctrine, not always in a peaceful way.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>There are many examples, perhaps if you looked for some reference on \"marriage\" in the anthropological bibliography you would give with even more specific data. In fact the definition of \"marriage\" is one of the most complicated things that anthropologists have faced (the Catholic vision of \"union of a man and a woman before God\" is just one of the dozens of forms of \"marriage\"). \"Documented by anthropologists, who by the way sometimes included people of the same sex on a temporary basis.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><strong>Mosuo Tribe</strong></p>\n<p><img src=\"http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/6197/85/16x9/1200.jpg\" /></p>\n<p><strong>Trobriand Tribe</strong></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/W_Malinowski_Trobriand_Isles_1918.jpg\" /></p>\n<p><br></p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"pkanl9dd5","appParentAuthor":"fabioladiaz","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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