Studies in Ancient History: The Second Series; Comprising an Inquiry Into the Origin of ExogamyA comprehensive anthropological and historical study of marriage and women's social role in Australia, Africa, the Americas, etc. |
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Africa ancient animal appears Ashantee Australia Bamangwato Bancroft Bear Bechuanas believe belonged Berbers bird blood blood-feud Brahmanic brother Bushmen called capture chief child clan coins common connection custom daughter death descent district division doubt eldest evidence exogamy fact father female infanticide female kinship Fiji fish Fison genealogies gods hapu heir horse Howitt human husband hypothesis Indians infer inhabitants Ippai Ippata Iroquois island Kamilaroi Kapota kill kindred king Kubbi Kumbo Kurnai Lakemba Levirate lion Livingstone Makololo male kinship Mangaia marriage marriage law marry Mata Mbau means mentioned mother Murri nations natives Opossum origin persons polyandry polygamy polygyny practice priest races relations religiously regarded sacred says serpent sister snake Somosomo sons statement succession system of kinship Tangaloa Thessalia Thibetan tion totem totem stage town tradition tribes Turtle Vasu Vatea village wife wives Wolf woman women worship Zulus
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Page 177 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Page 170 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Page 546 - He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
Page 602 - ... result of their deliberations being a petition to the Mooramoora, in answer to which he ordered that the tribe should be divided into branches, and distinguished one from the other by different names, after objects animate and inanimate, such as dogs, mice, emu, rain, iguana, and so forth, the members of any such branch not to intermarry, but with permission for one branch to mingle with another.
Page 468 - What a villain you are to boast of killing women and children of your own nation ! What will God say when you appear before him ?' ' He will say,' replied he, ' that I was a very clever fellow.
Page 400 - Unlike our families, these all descend in the female line, and no individual of either sex is allowed to marry another of the same family name. Thus, a woman of the Siwidi family bears the same name as her mother, but neither her father nor her husband can be of that family. Her children and the children of her daughters will also be called Siwidi, but both her sons and daughters are prohibited from an alliance with any individual bearing the same name; though they may marry into the family of their...
Page 223 - Vasu. The word means a nephew or niece, but becomes a title of office in the case of the male, who, in some localities, has the extraordinary privilege of appropriating whatever he chooses belonging to his uncle, or those under his uncle's power.
Page 166 - THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam; in the day when they were created.
Page 342 - In ancient times, they had a large fire, which having burned down, a great puffing and blowing were heard in the ashes; they looked, and behold a man stood up from the ashes ! — hence the name Piqua — a man coming out of the ashes, or made of ashes.
Page 338 - They profess to consider it highly criminal for a man to marry a woman whose Totem is the same as his own ; and they relate instances where young men, for a violation of this rule, have been put to death by their own nearest relatives.