Chapter 14

ABORIGINALman, Mr. Darwin's view of,209;Mr. Atkinson on,220Affinity, degrees of, prohibiting marriage,188;most stringently applied by least civilised races,2;differences of opinion among students of the question,2;existing laws not an indication of primitive rules,2;Australian anomaly,88Age distinction and the classificatory system, Mr. Atkinson on,290Altruism, possible germ of, in nascent man,232American ethnological terms,10Andrews, Judge, on Hawaiian marriage relationships,98Animal guardians among savages,131Annamese family relationships, Dr. Westermarck on,240Anomaly, totem, among the Arunta,85Anthropoid adult males unsocial,220Aristotle and early human society,7Arunta tribe of Central Australia,2,11;descent reckoned in the male line,15,69;supposed ignorance of procreation,20;a 'marriage ceremony,'24;reincarnation superstition,31,139;totem marriage-prohibition now extinct,41;totem common to both phratries,46,56;totem groups preceded phratries,61;Mr. Spencer on the introduction of exogamy,61;totem influence,61;traditions as to change of custom,67;Mr. Frazer's opinion of the tribe,68;intermarry with the Urabunna,69;theory of evolution,70; totemism,70;belief in reincarnation,71; totem eating,71;Dr. Durkheim's views,72;opinion of Spencer and Gillen,73;marital relationship,74;relations of totems and phratries,74;myths,75; Dr. Durkheim on,75;Messrs. Spencer and Gillen's opinions,76,77;institution of marriage regulations,78;phratries and totems,81;Dr. Durkheim's views on the phratry,82;totemic divisions,83;origin of the anomalous marriage system,85;philosophy of souls,86;relationships prohibiting marriage,88;curiosities of affinity,88;terms of relationship,93;relationship customs,96; legislation,108;legend regarding marriage limits,108;class system with male descent,120;totems and magic,196,198Atkinson, Mr., his speculations on human origin,3;on primitive man's polygamy,4;his theories and the Biblical account,7;disbelief in early promiscuity,9;views on the effect of sexual jealousy,9,18,30;his opinion on exogamy and totemism,17;his exogamous marriage hypothesis,18;his 'primal law,'19;on the origin of the 'classificatory system,'108;on New Caledonian totems,136;and the custom of avoidance,212,264;on the origin of exogamy,212,238;aboriginal man polygamous,220;man's distinction in the primal law,225;prolonged infancy in nascent man,230;origin of maternal love,231;possible germ of altruism,232;earliest evolution of law,236;wives procured by capture,244; editor's note thereon,248;development from the group to the tribe,250;effect of female sexual jealousy,256;extinction of the patriarchal family,261;survivals of transition period,264;clan (phratry) relationship,269;editor's note on avoidances,278;the classificatory system,280,285;on the original purpose of totems,282;on local contiguity constituting relationship,289;on age distinction and the classificatory system,290;on group marriage and the classificatory system,292Attic plant names,205Australia, marriage divisions in,38;consanguineous marriages forbidden,40;tribal variations of custom,41Australian group marriage, Messrs. Spencer and Gillen on,293Australian, native, society not primitive,3;complexity of social rules,3,4;low state of culture,4; divinities,5;languages and customs,6; commerce,6Australian tribal division, Mr. Fison on,42;the author's view,43Australian sex protectors,144Avebury, Lord, on racial customs,12; on totemism,122;on totem origin,123; on communal marriage,124;vague terminology,126,130; on relationships,128'Avoidance,' custom of, Mr. Atkinson on,212; origin of,276Avoidance between father-in-law and son-in-law,268; its origin,269Avoidance of mother-in-law,270,277; Mr. Crawley on its origin,278BACHOFEN'Sviews on maternal kin-names,9Baiame, Australian divinity,5,29,138,184Banks Island, two class divisions in,178Ba Ronga terms of relationship,301Barter between Australian tribes,6Basuto customary law,301'Bisection' a misleading term,36Bishop, Rev. A., on Hawaiian marriage relationships,98Blood kinship implied by totem name,193Breeding between sire and daughter, effect of,223British Columbia clan totems, Mr. Hill Tout on,152Brother-and-sister 'avoidance,'213; in Australia,216Brother-and-sister 'avoidance,' Dr. Westermarck on,240Brother-and-sister marriage, primitive, Mr. Morgan on,281Bull-roarer, palæolithic,5; miniature, discovered in France,5;Mr. Frazer's bibliography of,5nCALABAR'bush-souls,'143Camerons of Glen Nevis properly MacSorlies,8.Chattan, Clan, crest of the,163Clan, definition of,11Clan (phratry) relationship, Mr. Atkinson on,269Clandestine intercourse preliminary to marriage,265Class system, the,35; and Mr. Morgan,89Class system with male descent among the Arunta,120Class and generation correspond,112Class names, Herr Cunow on,113,118; Dr. Durkheim on,118;Mr. Mathews on,119Classes, Mr. Morgan's view of their origin,92Classificatory system, Mr. Atkinson on the,108,285;division by generations the most natural one,286;age distinction,290; and group marriage,292Classificatory terms,100Codrington, Dr., and totem descent,135;on Melanesian ancestor-worship,150;on social systems in Melanesia,177;his totem theory controverted,181Commerce, Australian inter-tribal,6Communal marriage, Mr. Morgan's theory,90; Lord Avebury on,124Consanguineous marriages forbidden among Australian tribes,40Contiguity, local, constituting relationship, Mr. Atkinson on,289Crawley, Mr., on promiscuous sexual relationship,9;on the origin of prohibited marriages,18;on jealousy in the family,19;on the matriarchal theory,20;his theory of exogamy,23;his view of marriage among savages,24;on the prevention of incest,26;on terms of relationship,95;on marriage by capture,249;on mother-in-law avoidance,278Cult of the totem,136Cunow's, Herr, opinion on 'class' and 'phratry,'37,112;on class names,113;regards the 'horde' as the original stage of society,114;his theory of exogamy,115;on local totem groups,116;his class-name theory opposed by Dr. Durkheim,118DARAMULUN, Australian divinity,5Darwin, Mr., his theory of primitive polygamy,4;his views on sexual jealousy,9;opposed to theory of promiscuity,99;on primitive man,209Dieri, the,41; myths,65,66,91,139,159,163;piraura custom,95,105Diet, effect of, on sexual appetite,227Distribution of totems in the 'phratries,'55Divine intervention, savage and civilised ideas,91Domesticated animals in palæolithic age,4,5Dorsey, Mr., his definition of clan,11;on totem descent,135;and North American Indian group names,172Dual relationship, tribal and individual,88Durkheim, Dr., on marriage relationship,19n;on blood and totem superstition,57n;on Arunta totemism,72;on Arunta 'phratries' and marriage,73;on the relation of totem and phratry,74,82;on Arunta legends,75;on totemic divisions,83;on Arunta anomalous marriage system,85;opposes Herr Cunow's theory of class names,118;on totem descent,135EARLYbelief in mutual danger of mankind,24Eguilles, Marquis d', and Kanaka relationship names,137Egypt, royal intermarriage,1,262Egyptian totemic myths,201Endogamy, meaning of,12English village sobriquets,173,295Erman, Adolf, on Yakut avoidance,275Euahlayi, the,29; Mrs. Langloh Parker on the,186n; myth,66Evolution of primal law of avoidance, Mr. Atkinson on the,210Exchange, commercial, among Australian tribes,6Exogamy, meaning of the term,10;anterior to totems, opinions on,17;Mr. McLennan's theory,21;Mr. Crawley's theory,23;Dr. Westermarck's theory,33;Mr. Morgan's theory,33;the author's theory,34;the result of evolution,53;Mr. Frazer's earlier ideas on,57;objections to,59; his later theory,62;advantages of the system now proposed,63;ignored by theorists on group totemism,160;Mr. Atkinson on origin of,212,238;earlier view quoted,212Exogamy among the Arunta,61Exogamy and totemism, Mr. Taylor's view,17Exogamy, local, origin of,31FAMILY, the, its antiquity,1; secured by dread of aberrations,1;laws and customs vary,1; uncivilised races and prohibited marriages,2;present-day institutions no guide to prehistoric customs,2;conjectures as to primitive state,4; patriarchal family the originalsocial unit,7; descent counted through the maternal line,8,21;suggestions as to early promiscuity,9;promiscuity prevented by sexual jealousy,9;totemism,14; family group or 'fire circle,'14,17;exogamous tendencies,17; Mr. Crawley on the effect of jealousy,19;matriarchal theory,20; Mr. McLennan's theory of family exogamy,21;Mr. Crawley's theory,23Father—and—daughter avoidance, Veddah,274Father-in-law and daughter-in-law, customs concerning,272,275Father-in-law avoidance, Mr. Atkinson on,263,277Female infanticide in first stages of society,21Fijian 'totem gods,'137Fison, Mr., on Kamilaroi marriage laws,28;and the class system in Australia,37;on Australian tribal division,42;controverted by the author,43;on the origin of totems,45;on the change of totems,48;on the origin of exogamy,65,97;his suggestion of Divine intervention,91;on terms of relationship,95;quotes Mr. Lance on communal marriage,106Fison and Howitt, Messrs., on totemism,16;their theories insufficient,51;hypothesis as to Greek totemism,203Fletcher, Miss Alice, on totem origin,151;on Omaha magical societies,198Folk-lore illustrative of totem group names,169France, miniature palæolithic bull-roarers found in,5Frazer, Mr., bibliography of the bull-roarer,5;regards the Arunta as primitive,20,68;his early ideas of the exogamous phratry,57;objections to them,59;his later theory of exogamy,62;his view that totems did not influence marriage,68;on the arrangement of totems in phratries,74;on Arunta legends,76;names several varieties of totem,132;his theories as to totem origin,143;on the group totem,144;on the personal totem,145Freeman, Mr., and the patriarchal family,7GAIDOZ AND SÉBILLOTMM., on unfriendly sobriquets,168Ganowanian gentes,92Ghost-worship, Melanesian,182Gillen, Mr.,seeSpencerGournditch Mara tribe,195Greek totemic myths,201Greek totemism, Messrs. Fison and Howitt's hypothesis,203Grey, Sir George, on totems in Western Australia,144Group marriage,89; supposed survivals of,104Group marriage and the classificatory system, Mr. Atkinson on,292;editor's comments,293Group marriage, Australian, Messrs. Spencer and Gillen on,293Group names, theory as to,166;originated outside the group,168,171Group totem, the hereditary,160Group totems, Mr. N. W. Thomas on,148Guatemala Indian nagual,144HADDON, Mr., on totem origin,156Hawaiian marriage relationships,98Hawaiian terms of relationship,93Hebrew village names, ancient,300Hesiod and early human society,7Horde, the foundation of Herr Cunow's theory,114;its division,115Hose and McDougall, Messrs., on Sarawak beliefs,153Hottentot marriages, Dr. Westermarck on,240Howitt, Mr., his ethnological nomenclature,10n;and the class system in Australia,37;his opinion on Australian marriage customs,41;his views on the primary class divisions,46;considers totemism too old for theorising,49;regards the undivided commune as a probable hypothesis,65;see alsoFisonHuman origin, Mr. Atkinson's speculations on,3;Biblical account differs from Mr. Atkinson's,not from Mr. Morgan's hypothesis,7Human society, limit of historical research into origins of,2;progress of,3; obscurity of the subject,3Hunter River totems, Mr. Rusden on,148INCASof Peru, royal intermarriage,1Incest to marry within totem name,16Incest, prevention of, Mr. Crawley's theory,26Individual totems, Mr. N. W. Thomas on,148Infancy prolonged in nascent man, Mr. Atkinson on,230Infanticide, female, and exogamy,21JEALOUSYthe cause of exogamy,19Jealousy, sexual, the motive power in social changes,272Jevons, Mr., on totems,134; on the Attic social system,206Junod, M. Henri, and the Baronga terms of relationship,301KAMILAROI, the,35nKamilaroi group laws, Mr. Mathews on,46Kamilaroi interphratry marriages,56Kamilaroi marriage laws, Mr. Mathews on,27;Mr. Fison on,28Keddies (Southern India), marriage custom among,286Kennedys of Galloway,7Kin name, maternal,8Kingsley, Miss, on the Calabar 'bush-souls,'143Kinship among the earliest human groups,19Kurnai women and the sex totem,146Kyontha social customs, Dr. Westermarck on,246nKyonthas, avoidance among the,275LANCE, Mr., on communal marriage survival,106Lang, Mr. G. S., quoted by Lord Avebury,126Lifu terms of relationship,94,100Local exogamy, its origin,13Long's, J., mention of 'totam,'131nMACDONNELLSof Moidart and Glengarry,7McGee, W. J., his ethnological terminology,11n;his views on the evolution of society,52McLennan, Mr. Daniel, on the origin of exogamy,63;on the phratries of Northern Victoria tribes,64McLennan, Mr. Donald, on exogamy and totemism,14,16,17McLennan, Mr. J. F.,3;his views on maternal kin-names,9;his definition of exogamy,10,12;his view of the most archaic marriage law,13;his opinion of kinship,19,20;his theory of exogamy,21;the theory untenable,22;his views of 'primitive groups,'31;and exogamous phratries,37;considers totemism anterior to exogamy,44;on totem kins,55;on terms of relationship,95;on marriage by capture,267;his criticism of Mr. Morgan's classification theory,284;remarks thereon by Mr. Atkinson,284MacSorlies part of Clan Cameron,8McUlrigs (Kennedys) of Galloway,7Magical societies,197Maine, Sir Henry, his 'Ancient Law,'7;on the evolution of tribes and states,7Malayan relationship system, Mr. Morgan on,90,281Mandeville, Sir John, referred to,24Man's distinction from other creatures, Mr. Atkinson on,225Marital relations among the Arunta74Marriage among savages, Mr. Crawley's view of,24Marriage by capture, Mr. Atkinson on,244,266;editor's remarks on Mr. Atkinson's views,248;Mr. McLennan on,267Marriage ceremony, Arunta,24Marriage, communal, Mr. Morgan's theory,90;Lord Avebury on,124Marriage custom of the Keddies of Southern India,286Marriage divisions in Australia,38Marriage, group,89; supposed survivals of,104Marriage laws, totemic and civilised,87Marriage regulations among the Arunta,78Marriage within the totem name prohibited,


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