Hunter Gatherers Flashcards
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Q
What was that big cross-cultural survey of primitive peoples? What was the distribution of polygyny to polyandry?
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Murdoch, 1967: Ethnographic Atlas. Survey of 849 primitive societies. About 80% allowed polygyny (30% for at least a fifth of their men). The rest, more or less, were monogamous. Only 4 (less than half a percent) were polyandrous
