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
ff.; KRAUSS, _Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven_, 272 ff.,
451; JOLLY, _Ueber die rechtl. Stellung der Frauen_, 16
ff.; KAUTSKY, _Kosmos_, XII, 329 ff.; DARGUN,
_Mutterrecht und Vaterrecht_, 122-28, 149-54; HEUSLER,
_Institutionen_, II, 277-86; TILLINGHAST, "The Negro in
Africa and America," _Pub. Am. Ec. Ass._ (New York, 1902), III,
chap. v; ELLIS, _Ewe-Speaking Peoples_, 153 ff., 199 ff.
[577] This occurs, occasionally, where it is the custom for
the husband to pass into the wife's family at marriage:
POST, _Familienrecht_, 174; _cf._ SPENCER,
_Principles of Sociology_, I, 788; WESTERMARCK, _Human
Marriage_, 382, 416.
[578] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 390; MARSDEN,
_History of Sumatra_, 259.
[579] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 390. Compare
CURR, _The Australian Race_, I, 107; FISON AND
HOWITT, _Kamilaroi and Kurnai_, 276, 285, 343. On exchange
see KOHLER, in _ZVR._, III, 345 (India); VIII, 242
(Islam), 112 (India).
[580] LICHTSCHEIN, _Die Ehe nach mosaisch-talmud.
Auffassung_, 10, 11.
[581] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 390, 391. He enumerates
the tribes in each continent among whom the custom is found. The
subject is also discussed by POST, _Familienrecht_,
197, 217-20; _idem_, _Geschlechtsgenossenschaft_, 75;
LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 135-37; BERNHÖFT,
"Ehe und Eherecht der griech. Heroenzeit," _ZVR._, XI, 321 ff.
For examples see KOHLER, in _ZVR._, V, 356, 357 (Malay
tribes); VI, 333, 334, 338 n. 49, 167; VIII, 113; IX, 334; XI,
420.
[582] BANCROFT, _Native Races_, I, 662.
[583] LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 136.
[584] The "youths serve the parents of the dames two or three
years before they are given them for wives; and they do not give
them except to those who serve them best, the men in love doing
the planting, fishing, and hunting for their fathers-in-law who
wish them to, and fetch them firewood from the forest; and when
the fathers-in-law give over to them the dames, they go and
lodge with the fathers-in-law with their wives," leaving their
own kindred: SOUZA, _Tratado Descriptivo do Brazil_
(1570-87): _Revist. Inst. Hist._, XIV, 311 ff.; _cf._ also
KOHLER, in _ZVR._, V, 352.
[585] During this courting season, among the small tribes on
the Amazon, the lover enjoys the so-called "bosom-right;" and
this custom, which appears to be identical in character with
that of "bundling" and the "proof-night," appears elsewhere
in America and in other parts of the world: MARTIUS,
_Rechtszustande_, 56; _ibid._, _Ethnographie_, I, 108; _cf._
HELLWALD, _Die mensch. Familie_, 321, 322.
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