Re: Brothers in law

Sort of the reverse is the Mormon custom of a man marrying his
brother wife, when the brother died. Not always a marriage, but
more like a "she is under my protection, and so are her kids,
since she is my brother widow and they are my kin"..

Mike

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpj@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Brothers in law


> Roger Mills skrev:
>
> > Polyandry is passing rare in human cultures, I think.
>
> The so-called polyandry once practiced in Tibet
> wasn't really one woman marrying two men, but
> two brothers sharing a wife so that they could
> both live off her land, so it was still an
> androcentric arrangement, in case anyone doubted it...
>
> --
> /BP 8^)>
> --
> Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
>
>     "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
>     it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
>     means "no"!
>
>                             (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)

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