Artifact Highlights. 1  Harriet Tubman Hymn Book (1876) 2  Jim Crow Railroad car (1920) 3  Rosa Park's Dress (1955) 4  Chuck Berryâs Cadillac (1973) 5  Marian Anderson Ensembel (1939) 6  Tuskegee Airmen Trainer Plane, an open-cockpit PT-13 Stearman (1944)
Hypergamy (colloquially referred to as marrying up) is a term used in social science for the act or practice of a person marrying another of higher caste or social status than themselves. The antonym hypogamy refers to the inverse: marrying a person of lower social class or status.
Originally polygamy could work either or both ways, but civilisation generally forbids simultaneous husbands; The condition of having more than one spouse or marriage partner at one time. Muslims and early Mormon communities have been known to practise polygamy. (zoology) The state or habit of having more than one sexual mate.