selama ini poligami identik dengan seorang laki-laki dengan banyak istri, dan poliandri adalah sebaliknya. padahal poligini merupakan istilah yang lebih tepat untuk seorang laki-laki dengan banyak istri. istilah poligami sendiri mencakup poligini dan poliandri. sayang, heboh “poligami” aa gym malah makin memperkuat salah kaprah tersebut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy
The term polygamy (literally many marriages in late Greek) is used in related ways in social anthropology and sociobiology and sociology. A good definition of “polygamy” is: having many wives or many husbands.
In social anthropology, polygamy is the practice of marriage to more than one spouse simultaneously. Historically, polygamy has been practiced as polygyny (one man having more than one wife), or as polyandry (one woman having more than one husband), or, less commonly as “polygamy” (having many wives and many husbands at one time).
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