 | Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - Economics - 1910 - 822 pages
...the custom arose of contracting marriage, or rather of entering into connubial relations, outside dT the clan ; and thus there developed one of the most...family relations are primarily property relations. The uther owns the land, the flocks, the wife or wives, the children, the slaves, and exercises scarcely... | |
 | Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - Economics - 1912 - 824 pages
...mythical ancestor, — generally an animal or plant. This totem, as it was called, became sacred and w.« soon protected by a system of " taboo " or religious...family relations are primarily property relations. The § 36] The Family. 87 father OVDS the land, the flocks, the wife or wives, the children, the slaves,... | |
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This totem, as it was called, became sacred and was soon protected by a system of " taboo " or religious prohibition. The origin of the totem worship is still shrouded in mystery, but is probably to be sought in economic reasons, — the totem being at... 