A special variety of polygamy known as sororate, in which a man would marry two or more women who were sisters, was practiced among the Liao elite.
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Levirate marriage was encouraged among ancient Jewish cultures; the chief example of sororate marriage found in the Hebrew Bible is that of sisters Rachel and Leah to one husband Jacob, forebear of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
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Unlike other systems such as the levirate, the sororate, or uncle-niece marriage, cross-cousin marriage is preferential because for obvious reasons these others cannot constitute the exclusive or even preponderant rule of marriage in any group.
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:: It seems surprising that the " Sororate marriage " doesn't include any mention of the decades long controversy in Victorian England about whether marrying one's deceased wife's sister was either highly suitable and appropriate or disgusting incest.
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Sororate is a custom which is practised among the Kurds like Levirate marriage : When a man loses his wife before she bears a child or she dies leaving young children, her lineage provides another wife to the man, usually a younger sister with a lowered bride-price.
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