How many types of mariage have there been in mankind's history?
Thank you!

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Clarification of Question by patrickdang-ga on 04 Oct 2006 08:39 PDT

Sorry! I'm not joking.
I'm just doing a research, and I want to find out about kinds of mariages!
Apart from male 2 male or female 2 female, I want to find out about
the "official mariages" that were (or are) accepted in society.
Thanks!

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 15 Oct 2006 17:29 PDT

Is this the type of information you are looking for?

http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/ATLAS_EN/html/forms_and_meanings_of_marriage.html
1. Monogamy (i.e., one husband having one wife),

2. (polygamy:) polygyny (i.e., one husband having several wives), 

3. (polygamy:) polyandry (i.e., several husbands having one wife), 

4. group marriage (i.e., several husbands having several wives).


http://www.lcsc.edu/ss150/u3s3p2.htm
Arranged marriages and Un-arranged marriages 

Exogamy is marriage outside one's own kin group or community.

Endogamy is marriage within some group or caste. For example, in India
there are arranged marriages based on caste and sub-caste (jati),
which keeps the social stratification system in place. In other
regions of the world, including the United States, there are towns
that primarily have only a few surnames, because people marry within
the community.


http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/extra/bl-wed-types.htm
There are eight types of marriage described in Manusmriti (Laws of
Manu) (CLICK TO VIEW)

~~Cynthia

It's kind of difficult to know what you want:
male female, male male, female female, 
consumated, unconsumated,
Religious of all types 
Civil  (before a govt. appointed person and registered)
Common Law
...

Only two:

Happy and Unhappy

Two here also....

Both unhappy so I guess I won't do that again...lol.

Steph53

This doesn't answer your question, but you might find it interesting:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=408324

Perhaps, you are talking about: POLYGAMOUS (one-man, many wives);
MONOGAMOUS (one-man, one-woman); MATRILINEAR (one-woman, many husbands
which is common in some parts of india).  In india, the woman pays
dowry or 'groom price' on the future husband.

I think there are more appropriate sociological terms for the above
marriages, but don't remember them.

There is also morganatic where the Man who marries a Woman of inferior rank.

Upon the death of her husband neither she or her children, 
 even though they are legitimately born, may inherit his rank or estate.


Kemlo

Two more types: 

1. Group marriage or Circle Marriage or Polyfidelity, is a form of
polygamous marriage in which more than one man and more than one woman
form a family unit, and all members of the marriage share parental
responsibility for any children arising from the marriage.

2. Line Marriage is a form of group marriage in which the family unit
continues to add new spouses of both sexes over time so that the
marriage does not end.  (Robert Heinlein)

What about Royal Marriages (e.g. The King of Siam) where the King had lots of wives?

Here is a nice explanations of all (?) forms of polygamy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy#Polygyny

Aranged marriages?

nice question
It's kind of difficult to know what you want?
you want between whom mariage?
or u what type of mariage?
if u wany type of mariage..then..
love mariage
arange mariage
court mariage
oppression mariage
mariage with god
devdasi mariage

if u want tomore infirmation
plz reply what you want:
thnax
javed