Punalua marriage

Punalua marriage ( Hawaiian punalua or pirauru ) or group marriage describes a restricted form of polygamy , which was widespread among the inhabitants of the Hawaiian island chain in the Pacific Ocean. Punalua refers to those spouses who have a partner in common, but is also used for other brotherhood relationships.

The American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan devoted 1877 Punalua marriage a chapter of his work Ancient Society (German: The primitive society ).

literature

Friedrich Engels : A Newly Discovered Case of Group Marriage. After: The New Time. Volume 11, No. 12, Volume 1, pp. 373-375 ( online at mlwerke.de).
Lewis Henry Morgan : Chapter III. The Punaluan Family. In: Same: Ancient Society; or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization. Emphasis. Henry Holt, New York 1907, p. 424 ff. (Original London 1877, p. 323 ff .; German 1908: Die Urgesellschaft. Studies on the progress of mankind from savagery through barbarism to civilization ; online at archive.org) .
Heinrich Schurtz : Age groups and men's associations: A representation of the basic forms of society. Reimer, Berlin 1902, pp. 173–189 ( side views on archive.org; full text of the book ).

Web links

Lukas, Schindler, Stockinger: Group marriage (Punalua marriage). In: Online Interactive Glossary: Marriage, Marriage, and Family. Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna, 1997 (in-depth remarks on marriage rules, with references).; accessed on June 10, 2019
Lexicon entry: Punalua marriage. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 1905.
Lexicon entry: punalua in Hawaiian Dictionaries . 2003 (English).

Individual evidence

^ Heinrich Schurtz : Age groups and men's associations: A representation of the basic forms of society. Reimer, Berlin 1902, p. 176 ( side view on archive.org).
↑ encyclopaedia entry: punalua in Hawaiian Dictionaries . 2003, accessed April 26, 2019.
↑ Lewis Henry Morgan : Chapter III. The Punaluan Family. In: Same: Ancient Society; or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization. Emphasis. Henry Holt, New York 1907, p. 424 ff. (Original London 1877, p. 323 ff .; German 1908: Die Urgesellschaft. Studies on the progress of mankind from savagery through barbarism to civilization ; online at archive.org) .

[Schurtz-1902-176-1] Heinrich Schurtz : Age groups and men's associations: A representation of the basic forms of society. Reimer, Berlin 1902, p. 176 ( side view on archive.org).

[Hawaiian-2003-punalua-2] yclopaedia entry: punalua in Hawaiian Dictionaries . 2003, accessed April 26, 2019.

[Morgan-1907-424-3] Lewis Henry Morgan : Chapter III. The Punaluan Family. In: Same: Ancient Society; or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization. Emphasis. Henry Holt, New York 1907, p. 424 ff. (Original London 1877, p. 323 ff .; German 1908: Die Urgesellschaft. Studies on the progress of mankind from savagery through barbarism to civilization ; online at archive.org) .