Mitara

Kiongozi wa kabila la Toba na wake zake, 1892.

Mitara (au Upoli au Upali) ni hali ya watu zaidi ya wawili kuishi katika uhusiano wa kindoa.

Hali hiyo ilikuwa ya kawaida barani Afrika, ambapo mwanamume mmoja aliweza kuwa na wanawake zaidi ya mmoja, lakini kwa sasa inazidi kupungua.

Ya nadra zaidi ni hali ya wanaume kadhaa kuchanga mwanamke mmoja.

Baadhi ya nchi zinakubali hali hiyo, lakini nyingi zinaikataza.

Vilevile baadhi ya dini zinakubali mitara, hususan Uislamu, lakini nyingine zinaikataza, hususan Ukristo.

Katika Biblia tunakuta maendeleo ya ufunuo kuhusu hali hiyo kati ya Agano la Kale na Agano Jipya.

Marejeo

• Cairncross, John (1974). After Polygamy Was Made a Sin: The Social History of Christian Polygamy. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 
• Campbell, James (1869). The History and Philosophy of Marriage. First published in Boston. 
• Chapman, Samuel A. (2001). Polygamy, Bigamy and Human Rights Law. Xlibris Corp. ISBN 1-4010-1244-2. 
• Hillman, Eugene (1975). Polygamy Reconsidered: African Plural Marriage and the Christian Churches. New York: Orbis Books. ISBN 0-88344-391-0. 
• Korotayev, Andrey (2004). World Religions and Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene Civilizations: A Cross-cultural Perspective (toleo la First). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-6310-0. 
• Main Street Church (2007; Video Documentary). Lifting the Veil of Polygamy. Main Street Church. 
• Van Wagoner, Richard S. (1992). Mormon Polygamy: A History (toleo la 2nd). Utah: Signature Books. ISBN 0-941214-79-6. 
• Wilson, E. O. (2000). Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. Harvard Univ Pr. ISBN 0-674-00235-0. 

Viungo vya nje

Simple English Wiktionary

Wikamusi ya Kiswahili ina maelezo na tafsiri ya maana ya neno:

mitara

• media kuhusu Polygamy pa Wikimedia Commons
• The Four Major Periods of Mormon Polygamy, essay by Todd M. Compton, hosted by Signature Books
• Polygamy in Africa
• History of Polygamy in Judaism
• LIFE With Polygamists, 1944 - slideshow by Life magazine