id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1684 Group marriage - Wikipedia .html text/html 2658 488 59 Find sources: "Group marriage" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Group marriage is a marital arrangement where three or more adults enter into sexual, affective, romantic, or otherwise intimate shortor long-term partnerships, and share in any combination of finances, residences, care or kin work. Colloquial usage of group marriage has also been associated with polyamory and polyamorous families. Among the Ancient Hawaiians, the relationship of punalua involved "the fact that two or more brothers with their wives, or two or more sisters with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common".[4] Friedrich Ratzel in The History of Mankind reported in 1896 that in Hawaii a kind of incipient polyandry arose by the addition to the marriage establishment of a cicisbeo, known as Punalua.[5] Kinship Organizations and Group Marriage in Australia. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1684.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1684.txt