Editing Polyandry (section)

===Oceania===
* Among the [[Kanak people|Kanak]] of [[New Caledonia]], "every woman is the property of several husbands. It is this collection of husbands, having one wife in common, that...live together in a hut, with their common wife."<ref>Dr. Jacobs: ''Untrodden Fields of Anthropology''. New York: Falstaff Press, 1937. vol. 2, p. 219.</ref>
* [[Marquesan]]s had "a society in which households were polyandrous".<ref>Roslyn Poignant: ''Oceanic Mythology''. Paul Hamlyn, London, 1967, p. 69.</ref>
* [[Friedrich Ratzel]] in ''The History of Mankind''<ref>{{cite web |first=Ratzel |last=Friedrich |publisher=MacMillan |date=1896 |url=http://www.inquirewithin.biz/history/american_pacific/oceania/courtship-weddings.htm |title=The History of Mankind |access-date=2010-04-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120727043227/http://www.inquirewithin.biz/history/american_pacific/oceania/courtship-weddings.htm |archive-date=2012-07-27 }}</ref> reported in 1896 that in the [[New Hebrides]] there was a kind of convention in cases of widowhood, that two widowers shall live with one widow.