Note 451 — Chapter III · THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY
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Wake, op. cit., 179-81; Spencer, op. cit., 685. So the African has as many wives as he can buy; and only the rich in ancient Mexico indulged in polygyny: Waitz, Anthropologie, II, 108; IV, 130. Among the American Indians the cost and difficulty of feeding them make several wives the privilege of the opulent. Increased labor gives the California Wintun woman increased rights; "for then she extorts monogamy": Ratzel, History of Mankind, II, 124, 494 (China and Japan). Compare Avery, "The Indo-Pacific Oceans," Am. Antiquarian, VI, 366.