Abstract
This conclusion summarizes themes central to the papers collected in this volume-the definitional characteristics of polyandry, the relative status of women, as well as the political, economic and psychological concommitants of polyandrous systems of marriage- and attempts to account for biases which have hindered the study of these subjects in the past. As a first step in comparative analysis, a fourfold classification of types of polyandry, in addition to cicisbeism, is developed and examined in light of a larger contrast between Asian and African marital systems. Finally the paper discusses certain features common to polyandrous marriage worldwide.
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