![]() ![]() More than 15% of all husbands say they have had a series of affairs, and nearly 70% of married men younger than 40 expect to have an extramarital relationship. Ethnographic Atlas Variables 200 to 292 37. Ethnographic Atlas Codebook, derived from George P. Cross-Cultural Sample (Variables v1 to v2000 as of May, 2004) from. How common are they? Estimates range between 23-50% men and 13-50% women in the US had an extramarital affair during their lifetimes. In the Ethnographic Atlas, of 1,231 societies noted, 588 had frequent polygyny, 453 had occasional polygyny. Consequently, the Western claim to monogamy is a misnomer. The authors examine the development of theory- and data-driven codes through the discussion of a. In the West today, it is common for married men to have extramarital relations with mistresses, girlfriends, and prostitutes. This article gives specific steps on how to create a codebook for coding interview data. The court refused to recognize polygamy as a legitimate religious practice, dismissing it as “almost exclusively a feature of the life of Asiatic and African people.” In later decisions, the court declared polygamy to be “a blot on our civilization” and compared it to human sacrifice and “a return to barbarism.” Most tellingly, the court found that the practice is “contrary to the spirit of Christianity and of the civilization which Christianity has produced in the Western World.” in the Ethnographic Atlas, (4) the Ethnographic Atlas regional identity code. The ethnocentric revulsion for polygamy is best reflected in US Supreme Court’s 1878 opinion in Reynolds vs. George Murdocks Ethnographic Atlas 1967 is a rich compendium of. disseminating cross-cultural coded data, bibliographies, codebooks. Within the available sample, males were 7 taller than females on average. I used hierarchical linear regression models to determine the best combination of variables to explain observed variation in stature sexual dimorphism. Consequently, to equate polygamy with degrading women is an ethnocentric judgment of other societies. and compared this with selected variables from the Ethnographic Atlas (a cross -cultural sample of 1267 societies). The point that is often misunderstood in the West is that women in other cultures – especially African and Islamic – do not necessarily look at polygamy as a sign of women’s degradation. The Western attitude towards polygamy is ethnocentric and hypocritical. ![]()
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