单词 | punalua |
释义 | punaluan. Cultural Anthropology. A form of group marriage in which a wife's sisters and a husband's brothers are also considered to be spouses.Used by L. H. Morgan in his theory of the evolution of kinship systems, in which punalua was assumed to succeed promiscuity and precede exogamy. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > one who > one of several spouses punalua1860 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > group-marriage pantagamy1852 hetaerism1870 marriage1870 group marriage1880 punalua1922 1860 L. Andrews Let. in L. H. Morgan Anc. Society (1877) iii. iii. 427 The relationship of pŭnalŭa is rather amphibious [sic]. It arose from the fact that two or more brothers with their wives, or two or more sisters with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common. 1922 B. Malinowski in Nature 22 Apr. 502/2 Starting from promiscuity, mankind went through group marriage, then the so-called consanguineous family or Punalua, then polygamy. 1970 K. Millett Sexual Politics ii. iii. 111 A succession of sexual associations: promiscuity, group marriage, the consanguineous family, the Punalua. 1991 October 58 61 He [sc. Engels] mistook the ‘punalua’ family (all brothers in clan A married to all sisters in clan B, its counterpart), an ideological ‘fossil’ fabricated by recent Indian society, for an effective past form of family. Derivatives punaˈluan adj. formed in accordance with punalua. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [adjective] > group marriage punaluan1877 1877 L. H. Morgan Anc. Society iii. iii. 424 The Punaluan family has existed in Europe, Asia, and America within the historical period. 1940 A. West & D. Torr tr. F. Engels Origin of Family (1942) ii. 39 The American system of consanguinity..finds, down to the smallest details, its..natural foundation in the punaluan family. 1970 K. Millett Sexual Politics ii. iii. 120 The first course of social change as Engels had charted it was from consanguine group marriage, to the Punaluan consanguine group. 2004 E. San Juan Working through Contradictions ii. 89 Based on Marx's notes on the discoveries of anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan, Engels tracks the development of the monogamous family from the dissolution and sublation of earlier forms—the consanguine, the punaluan, the pairing, and finally the monogamous bourgeois family. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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