The History of Human MarriageMacmillan, 1901 - 644 pages Scattered references to Australian natives; jealousy, prostitution, conception beliefs; mutilations to attract opposite sex, initiation rites (circumcision, subincision), modesty, arranging marriages, sexual needs. |
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... Powers says that among the Patwin , a Californian tribe which ranks among the lowest in the world , " the sentiment that the men are bound to support the women -that is to furnish the supplies - is stronger even than among us . " 2 ...
... Powers says that among the Patwin , a Californian tribe which ranks among the lowest in the world , " the sentiment that the men are bound to support the women -that is to furnish the supplies - is stronger even than among us . " 2 ...
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... power is restricted to a certain season , it cannot be the sexual instinct that keeps male and female together for months or years . Nor is there any other egoistic motive that could probably account for this habit . Considering that ...
... power is restricted to a certain season , it cannot be the sexual instinct that keeps male and female together for months or years . Nor is there any other egoistic motive that could probably account for this habit . Considering that ...
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... Powers informs us that , among the Californian Wintun , if a wife is abandoned when she has a young child , she is justified by her friends in destroying it on the ground that it has no supporter . And among the Creeks , a young woman ...
... Powers informs us that , among the Californian Wintun , if a wife is abandoned when she has a young child , she is justified by her friends in destroying it on the ground that it has no supporter . And among the Creeks , a young woman ...
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... Powers confirms the correct- ness of this statement , at least with regard to some of these Indians , saying that spring " is a literal Saint Valentine's Day with them , as with the natural beasts and birds of the forest . " 2 As ...
... Powers confirms the correct- ness of this statement , at least with regard to some of these Indians , saying that spring " is a literal Saint Valentine's Day with them , as with the natural beasts and birds of the forest . " 2 As ...
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... power is to be attributed directly to " the different positions of the sun with respect to the earth , " or to the temperature of a certain season . The phenomenon does not immediately spring from this cause in the case of any other 1 ...
... power is to be attributed directly to " the different positions of the sun with respect to the earth , " or to the temperature of a certain season . The phenomenon does not immediately spring from this cause in the case of any other 1 ...
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Page 119 - Therefore, looking far enough back in the stream of time, and judging from the social habits of man as he now exists, the most probable view is that he aboriginally lived in small communities, each with a single wife, or if powerful with several, whom he jealously guarded against all other men.
Page 156 - It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Page 253 - I have seen the female sitting quietly on a branch, and two males displaying their charms in front of her. One would shoot up like a rocket, then suddenly expanding the snow-white tail like an inverted parachute, slowly descend in front of her, turning round gradually to show off both back and front. The...
Page 410 - And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night ; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
Page 430 - La loi ne considère le mariage que comme contrat civil. Le pouvoir législatif établira pour tous les habitants sans distinction, le mode par lequel les naissances, mariages et décès seront constatés ; et il désignera les officiers publics qui en recevront et conserveront les actes.
Page 165 - Tonga hold true for a great many, not to say all, savage and barbarous races now existing. " It must not be supposed," he says, "that these women are always easily won; the greatest attentions and most fervent solicitations are sometimes requisite, even though there be no other lover in the way.
Page 44 - ... their common defence. It is no argument against savage man being a social animal, that the tribes inhabiting adjacent districts are almost always at war with each other; for the social instincts never extend to all the individuals of the same species. Judging from the analogy of the majority of the Quadrumana, it is probable that the early ape-like progenitors of man were likewise social; but this is not of much importance for us.
Page 51 - He has invented and is able to use various weapons, tools, traps, &c., with which he defends himself, kills or catches prey, and otherwise obtains food. He has made rafts or canoes for fishing or crossing over to neighbouring fertile islands. He has discovered the art of making fire, by which hard and stringy roots can be rendered digestible, and poisonous roots or herbs innocuous.
Page 44 - ... rice-farms, are the oftener cleared, and hence are almost always wanting in suitable trees for their nests. . . . It is seldom that more than one or two nests are seen upon the same tree, or in the same neighbourhood : five have been found, but it was an unusual circumstance.
Page 565 - The Marriage of Near Kin, Considered with respect to the Laws of Nations, Results of Experience, and the Teachings of Biology.