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QUESTION 10 “Would polygamy work in Australia today? Use cross-cultural comparisons to support your argument, pay attention to the advantages and disadvantages of this form of marriage.�

In this essay I will argue the point that polygamy will not work in the Australian society in which we live today. ‘Polygamy is not merely an exotic habit of a few faraway people. A wide range of very different societies allow a man to be married to more that one wife simultaneously and is even today a viable form of marriage in large parts of the world’. (Bretschneider 1995 p.11) I will support my argument based on the reasons some of these cultures practice polygamy and why in Australia there is no need for this type of marriage. There are many theories to explain the development of polygamy within cultures, I will examine several of these reasons and compare them to the Australian society of today.

Firstly I will look at an example of a hunter gather society such as the......

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