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.
Dictionary entry overview: What does polygamy mean? â¢ POLYGAMY (noun) The noun POLYGAMY has 1 sense: 1. having more than one spouse at a time Familiarity information: POLYGAMY used as a noun is very rare.