Editing Polygyny (section)

====Chile====
{{Further|Mapuche polygamy}}
Polygyny has a long history among the [[Mapuche]] people of southern [[South America]]. Wives that share the same husband are often relatives, such as sisters, who live in the same community.<ref name=lainfo2013/> Having the same husband does not imply women belong to the same household.<ref name=lainfo2013/> Mapuche polygamy has no legal recognition in [[Chile]].<ref name=lainfo2013>{{Cite news|title=La poligamia pervive en las comunidades indígenas del sur de Chile|url=https://www.lainformacion.com/asuntos-sociales/la-poligamia-pervive-en-las-comunidades-indigenas-del-sur-de-chile_iIqbAIrxZAT9vQNPaqApd1/|last=Rausell|first=Fuencis|date=June 1, 2013|access-date=January 20, 2021|work=La Información|language=Spanish}}</ref> This puts women who are not legally married to their husband at disadvantage to any legal wife in terms of securing inheritance.<ref name=lainfo2013/> It is thought that present-day polygamy is much less common than it once was, in particularly compared with the time before the [[Occupation of Araucanía]] (1861–1883) when [[Araucanía (historic region)|Araucanía]] lost its autonomy.<ref name=lainfo2013/> Albeit chiefly rural, Mapuche polygamy has also been reported in the low-income peripheral communes of [[Santiago]].<ref name=Millaleo2018-133>{{Cite thesis|title=Poligamia mapuche / Pu domo ñi Duam (un asunto de mujeres): Politización y despolitización de una práctica en relación a la posición de las mujeres al interior de la sociedad mapuche|last=Millaleo Hernández|first=Ana Gabriel|degree=PhD|date=2018|publisher=[[University of Chile]]|url=http://repositorio.conicyt.cl/bitstream/handle/10533/220808/TesisDocAnaMillaleoCONICYT.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|place=Santiago de Chile|language=Spanish|page=133}}</ref>