A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3Howard, George Elliott
History
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3
Howard, George Elliott
Families; Marriage -- History
[334] _Studies_, I, 88, 83-146; _Patriarchal Theory_, chap.
xiii. In general, on kinship in the female line, compare
HELLWALD, _Die mensch. Familie_, 124, 150 ff., 239,
456-58; LIPPERT, _Die Geschichte der Familie_, 4 ff., 8
ff.; _Kulturgeschichte_, II, 90 ff., _passim_; DARGUN,
Mutterrecht und Raubehe, 1 ff., 13, 17; _Mutterrecht und
Vaterrecht_, 1 ff., 43 ff.; GIRAUD-TEULON, _Origines_,
131 ff.; POST, _Geschlechtsg._, 88 ff., 94 ff.;
_Familienrecht_, 7 ff.; _Ursprung_, 37 ff.; _Anfänge_, 10
ff.; _Afrikanische Jurisprudenz_, I, 13 ff.; KOHLER,
_Zur Urgeschichte der Ehe_, 53 ff.; KOVALEVSKY,
_Tableau_, 7 ff.; TYLOR, _On a Method_, 252 ff.;
WILKEN, _Das Matriarchat_, 3 ff.; SMITH,
_Kinship and Marriage_, 131 ff., 151 ff.; LUBBOCK,
_Origin of Civilization_, 149 ff.; MORGAN, _Ancient
Society_, 63 ff., 153-83, 344 ff. All the foregoing writers
sustain in the main McLennan's and Bachofen's principal
assumptions. On the other hand, they are rejected or criticised
by SPENCER, _Principles of Sociology_, I, 665 ff.;
WAKE, _Marriage and Kinship_, chaps. viii, ix, x;
BERNHÖFT, in _ZVR._, VIII, 4 ff.; MAINE,
_Early Law and Custom_, chap, vii; FRIEDRICHS, in
_ZVR._, VIII, 370-83; X, 189 ff.; SCHURMAN, _Ethical
Import of Darwinism_, 223; STARCKE, _Primitive
Family_, 1-120; WESTERMARCK, _Human Marriage_, 96-113.
HILDEBRAND, _Ueber das Problem_, 28-31, holds that
the earlier mother-right gave place to the paternal system
under influence of property. See also LETOURNEAU,
_L'évolution_, 424, 377 ff., who believes that the maternal
system is more archaic, but does not imply promiscuity;
MUCKE, _Horde und Familie_, 114 ff., _passim_; and
KAUTSKY, _Entstehung der Ehe_, 256 ff., 338 ff.,
who holds that the systems were independently developed;
GROSSE, _Die Formen der Familie_, 48 ff., 61, who
believes it possible that the two systems may have been worked
out side by side and that they are not necessarily successive
phases of development.
[335] _Palauinseln_ (1873), 320, 119, 181; KOHLER, in
_ZVR._, VI, 327.
[336] FRIEDRICHS, "Ueber den Ursprung des Matriarchats,"
_ZVR._, VIII, 374, 375.
[337] _Das Weib_, I, 172 ff., 179 ff. See also his _Das Kind_, I,
383 ff.; and compare FRIEDRICHS, _op. cit._, 375, 376;
HELLWALD, _op. cit._, 343.
While not denying that uncertainty of fatherhood may have been
influential in some cases, Spencer argues that without this
assumption it is perfectly natural that the child should be named
from the mother with whom it spends its early life; and where
exogamy prevails the custom would become a convenient rule for
determining who are marriageable women within the group; for the
"requirement that a wife shall be taken from a foreign tribe readily
becomes confounded with the requirement that a wife shall be of
foreign blood."[338]
[338] _Principles of Sociology_, I, 665, 666.
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