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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN Serial polygamy is practiced widely in America where they take a mate at a time in a series. Polygamy is practiced in most parts of the world, where one man may take more than one wife at a time. This is practiced all over the Sudan as well. This is closely connected kith the status and wealth of a person. For example Nida gives the following simplified economic cycle for the Shilluk. Polyandry, the system where one woman keeps more than one husband and, group marriages where a group of men and women will have sexual access within the group are not found in the Sudan. Monogamy- One man - one wife equal considered as the Christian ideal. But it limited areas of the world. status matrimony is practices only in Polygamy are probably the major problem faced by the Christian churches in the Sudan. There have been great emphasis on monogamy within the churches and very often the churches forced the converts to divorce all wives except one, if they were to remain within the church. This has led to great many sufferings. which one of the wives is disposable? That 55
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN will you do kith the children of the divorced wives? What will the divorced women do? Particularly if they are past child bearing age, they will be living a miserable existence. Be should not forget that even though monogamy is the ideal, God did allow polygamy in the Old Testament period, 'because of their hard heartedness.' There are occasions when the ideal may be violated to maintain Biblical absolutism. For example what will we do in a situation where there are excess of one sex. In Jamaica for example soon after the world war there were almost three women for one man. How do we apply Biblical Absolutism and cultural relativism in this case? Kinship Tribe is a close knit unit by kinship relations. There are essentially three different types of ties. * The affinal ties arise by intermarriage, * the consanguine ties arise by blood relation through parentage, and * the fictive ties arise by legal ceremonial or religious oath. A missionary may enter into a kinship relation by marriage or by fictive relation. A clear understanding of kinship relation is essential for any serious entry into a culture. Diagrammatic analysis of kinship is probably of great help in understanding the kinship structure. Here are the special symbols used in such studies. 56
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Prof. M. M. Ninan and Pastor Immanu
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