A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3Howard, George Elliott
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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3
Howard, George Elliott
Families; Marriage -- History
Illustrations of matrimonial law and usage may be found in
Henrici, "Das Volksrecht der Epheneger," in _ZVR._, XI;
Kohler, "Das Recht der Papuas auf Neu-Guinea," _ibid._, VII;
his "Das Recht der Birmanen," and "Das Recht der Chins," both
_ibid._, VI; Farrer, "Early Wedding Customs," in his _Primitive
Manners_ (London, 1879); Volkov, "Rites et usages nuptiaux
en Ukräine," in _L'anthropologie_, II, III (Paris, 1891-92);
Ellis, "Survivals from Marriage by Capture," in _Pop. Sci.
Monthly_, June, 1891 (New York, 1891); Loring, "Marriage,"
in his _A Confederate Soldier in Egypt_ (New York, 1884);
Blumentritt, _Ethnographie der Philippinen_ (Gotha, 1882); and
Wessely, "Ein griechischer Heiratscontract vom Jahre 136 n.
Ch.," in _Xenia Austriaca_, I (Vienna, 1893). Useful material
will likewise be found in Weinhold, _Deutsche Frauen_ (Vienna,
1882); Harrison, "Religion and Family among the Haidas" (Queen
Charlotte Islands), in _Jour. Anth. Inst._, XXI (London, 1891);
Crawley, "Sexual Taboo," _ibid._, XXIV (London, 1894-95); his
_Mystic Rose_ (London and New York, 1902); and Floessel, _Die
Schwiegermutter_ (Dresden, 1890).
For the question of sexual selection with Darwin compare
Wallace, _Darwinism_ (London, 1891); Poulton, _Colours of
Animals_ (New York, 1890); and Weismann, _Studies in the Theory
of Descent_ (London, 1880-82).
Hebrew marriage is treated by Michaelis, _Abhandlung von den
Ehegesetzen Mosis_ (Göttingen, 1768); his _Commentaries on
the Laws of Moses_ (London, 1814); Lichtschein, _Die Ehe nach
mosaisch-talmudischer Auffassung_ (Leipzig, 1879); Mielziner,
_The Jewish Law of Marriage and Divorce_ (Cincinnati, 1884);
Weill, _La femme juive_ (1874); Kurtz, _Die Ehe der Söhne
Gottes mit den Töchtern der Menschen_ (Berlin, New York, and
Adelaide, 1857); his _Die Ehe des Propheten Hosea_ (Dorpat,
1859); Stubbe, _Die Ehe im Alten Testament_ (Jena, 1886); Ellis,
"Marriage and Kinship among the ancient Israelites," in _Pop.
Sci. Monthly_, XLII (New York, 1892-93), 325-37; Bergel, _Die
Eheverhältnisse der alten Juden_ (Leipzig, 1881); Duschak,
_Das mosaisch-talmudische Eherecht_ (Vienna, 1864); especially
Döllinger's rare book, _Heidenthum und Judenthum_ (Regensburg,
1857), containing a comparison of Grecian, Roman, and Hebrew
laws and social customs. For Babylon see the works of Simcox,
Sayce, Kohler, and Haupt mentioned in the Bibliographical Index,
I.
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