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
Sir John Lubbock, _Origin of Civilization_ (New York, 1889),
maintains the theory and introduces the name of "communal
marriage." McLennan is in the main supported by Robertson Smith,
_Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia_ (Cambridge, 1885). This
book may be read in connection with Wilken, _Das Matriarchat bei
den alten Arabern_ (Leipzig, 1884); Kohler, "Vorislamitisches
Recht der Araber," in _ZVR._, VIII; Friedrichs, "Das Eherecht
des Islams," _ibid._, VII; Vincenti, _Die Ehe im Islam_ (Vienna,
1876); Pischon, _Der Einfluss des Islams auf das häusliche,
soziale, und politische Leben seiner Bekenner_ (Leipzig,
1881); Perron, _Femme arabe_ (Paris and Alger, 1858); Kremer,
_Kulturgeschichte des Orients unter den Kalifen_ (Vienna, 1875);
Vámbéry, _Der Islam im neunzehnten Jahrhundert_ (Leipzig, 1875);
his _Türkenvolk_ (Leipzig, 1885); Hanoteau and Letourneux, _La
kabylie et les coutumes kabyles_ (Paris, 1893); and Baway,
"The Marriage Customs of the Moors of Ceylon," in _Journal
of the Royal Asiatic Society_, Ceylon Branch, 1887-88, X,
219-33 (Colombo, 1888). Read also Redhouse, _Notes on Tylor's
'Arabian Matriarchate,'_ propounded by Tylor before the British
Association, Montreal, 1884.
For the matrimonial institutions of the Australian aborigines,
whose so-called "group-marriage" has played so great a part
in speculation, see especially Fison and Howitt, _Kamilaroi
and Kurnai_ (Melbourne, 1880), supplemented by their "Deme
and the Horde," in _Journal of the Anth. Inst._, XIV, 142-68
(London, 1885), comparing Attic and Australian classes and
local divisions; Fison's article on "Primitive Marriage,"
in _Pop. Sci. Monthly_, XVII (New York, 1880); his paper on
"Classificatory Systems of Relationship," in _Brit. Assoc. Adv.
Sci._ (Oxford, 1894); Howitt's "Remarks on the Class Systems
Collected by Mr. Palmer," in _Journal of the Anth. Inst._,
XIII, 335-46 (London, 1884); his "Dieri and Other Kindred
Tribes of Central Australia," _ibid._, XX; "Further Notes on
the Australian Class Systems," _ibid._, XVIII, 31-36 (London,
1889); "Organization of Australian Tribes," in _Trans. Roy.
Soc. of Victoria_, I, Part II (1889); and his "Australian Group
Relations," in _Rep. Smith. Inst._, 1883 (Washington, 1885).
Important also are Cunow, _Die Verwandtschafts-Organisationen
der Australneger_ (Stuttgart, 1894), supplementing Morgan's
_Ancient Society_, while rejecting some of Morgan's and Fison's
conclusions; Kohler, "Das Recht der Australneger," in _ZVR._,
VII; his later _Zur Urgeschichte der Ehe_ below named; McLennan,
_Studies_, II, 278-310; Curr, _The Australian Race_ (Melbourne,
1886), rejecting the theory of "group-marriage" and promiscuity;
especially Roth's _North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines_
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