English Dictionary

hetaerism

名詞

不可算名詞

A theoretical early state of human society (as postulated by 19th-century anthropologists) which was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form, and where women were the common property of their tribe, and the children never knew their fathers.

日本語の意味

婚姻制度が全く存在しない社会状態 / 女性が部族の共有財産とみなされる社会状態 / 子供たちが父親を知らない状態 / 19世紀の人類学者が仮説として提示した、初期人類社会の一形態

Anthropologists argued that the prehistoric community's hetaerism meant there was no institution of marriage, women were treated as communal property, and children never knew their fathers.

人類学者たちは、その先史時代の共同体の社会的取り決めが、婚姻制度が存在せず女性が共同の所有物と見なされ、子どもたちが父親を知らなかったような原始的な共同制度に当たると主張した。

意味（1）

A theoretical early state of human society (as postulated by 19th-century anthropologists) which was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form, and where women were the common property of their tribe, and the children never knew their fathers.

意味（2）

An Ancient Greek custom according to which a man's wife was forbidden to accompany him to many public events, including the banquets or symposia which made up a large part of Greek social life, and where men sought out the company of courtesans or hetaerae instead.