Marriage

===Right of sexual access===
In a 1997 article in ''[[Current Anthropology]]'', [[Duran Bell]] describes marriage as "a relationship between one or more men (male or female) in severalty to one or more women that provides those men with a demand-right of sexual access within a domestic group and identifies women who bear the obligation of yielding to the demands of those specific men." In referring to "men in severalty", Bell is referring to corporate kin groups such as lineages which, in having paid bride price, retain a right in a woman's offspring even if her husband (a lineage member) deceases ([[Levirate marriage]]). In referring to "men (male or female)", Bell is referring to women within the lineage who may stand in as the "social fathers" of the wife's children born of other lovers. (See Nuer "[[Ghost marriage (Sudanese)|ghost marriage]]".)<ref name="Bell">{{cite journal |last=Bell |first=Duran |author-link=Duran Bell |year=1997 |title=Defining Marriage and Legitimacy |url=http://www.economics.uci.edu/~dbell/marriageandlegit.pdf |journal=[[Current Anthropology]] |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=237–54 |doi=10.1086/204606 |jstor=2744491 |s2cid=144637145 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524221837/http://www.economics.uci.edu/~dbell/marriageandlegit.pdf |archive-date=24 May 2017 |access-date=6 April 2013}}</ref>