Editing Levirate marriage (section)

==Americas==
===Pre-colonial Inca civilization===

Spanish chronicler, [[Juan de Betanzos]], described the practice of levirate marriage which he saw observed in Peru in the early 16th-century by the people ruled by the Inca: "If the first husband of a woman died and the woman wanted to marry, she would be married to the closest relative of her husband. If children remained from her first husband, she should rear them as her own. If the first husband left no children, the second should be from the same lineage and the lineage would continue and the blood of those of [[Cuzco]] would not be mixed with that of some other nation or disappear."<ref>{{cite book|author-first=Juan |author-last=de Betanzos|author-link=Juan de Betanzos |editor-first1=Roland |editor-last1=Hamilton|editor-first2=Dana |editor-last2=Buchanan|title=Narrative of the Incas (Spanish:  Suma Y Narracion de Los Incas)|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=OeGNoiGxUdwC}}|year=1996|publisher=University of Texas Press|page=Part One: 106 |isbn=978-0-292-75559-8 |oclc=1286807163 }} (based on the Palma de Mallorca manuscript)</ref>