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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... considered to belong to her husband , not during his lifetime only , but after his death , pp . 124-130 . - Widows killed , pp . 125 , et seq . - Duties towards deceased husbands , pp . 126 , et seq . - Widows forbidden to marry again ...
... considered to belong to her husband , not during his lifetime only , but after his death , pp . 124-130 . - Widows killed , pp . 125 , et seq . - Duties towards deceased husbands , pp . 126 , et seq . - Widows forbidden to marry again ...
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... considered disgraceful for a man to have more wives than he was able to maintain.1 Mr. 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 ...
... considered disgraceful for a man to have more wives than he was able to maintain.1 Mr. 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 ...
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... considered so indispensable , that , if the father dies before a child is born , the child is put to death by the mother , as there is no longer any one to provide for it.1 3 Among the cannibals of New Britain , the chiefs have to see ...
... considered so indispensable , that , if the father dies before a child is born , the child is put to death by the mother , as there is no longer any one to provide for it.1 3 Among the cannibals of New Britain , the chiefs have to see ...
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... considered it a shame for a boy to think of a wife before having given some proof of his manhood.2 Among the wild Indians of British Guiana , says Mr. Im Thurn , before a man is allowed to choose a wife he must prove that he can do a ...
... considered it a shame for a boy to think of a wife before having given some proof of his manhood.2 Among the wild Indians of British Guiana , says Mr. Im Thurn , before a man is allowed to choose a wife he must prove that he can do a ...
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... considered to be in the married state.1 Among the Tipperahs of the Chittagong Hills , as well as the peasants of the Ukraine , a seducer is bound to marry the girl , should she become pregnant . Again , Mr. Powers informs us that ...
... considered to be in the married state.1 Among the Tipperahs of the Chittagong Hills , as well as the peasants of the Ukraine , a seducer is bound to marry the girl , should she become pregnant . Again , Mr. Powers informs us that ...
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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.
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