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
(Brisbane and London, 1899); and Spencer and Gillen's very
able and detailed account of the _Native Tribes of Central
Australia_ (New York and London, 1899), both of which works,
like those of Kohler, tend to sustain the general, though not
all the incidental, conclusions of Fison and Howitt. Among the
many papers and books useful for studying the social life of
the Australians are Palmer, "Notes on Some Australian Tribes,"
in _Journal of the Anth. Inst._, XIII (London, 1884); Mathew,
"The Australian Aborigines," in _Journal of the Royal Society
of New South Wales_, XXIII (Sydney, 1889); Mathews, "Australian
Class Systems," in _The Am. Anthropologist_, IX, X (Washington,
1896-97); and his "The Victorian Aborigines," _ibid._, XI
(Washington, 1898). Supplementary materials may likewise be
found in Dawson, _Australian Aborigines_ (Melbourne, Sydney,
and Adelaide, 1881); Jung, _Das Welttheil Australien_ (Leipzig,
1882); Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_ (London, 1878); Smith and
Stewart's _The Booandik Tribe_ (1880); Lang, _Social Origins_;
Atkinson, _Primal Law_ (published together, London, New York,
and Bombay, 1903); and especially Crawley, _Mystic Rose_ (London
and New York, 1902).
McLennan was first systematically and luminously criticised
by Spencer, in Part III of his _Principles of Sociology_
(published, in parts, 1874-77; complete, New York, 1879).
McLennan replied in two articles in the _Fortnightly Review_,
XXVII (London, 1877); and in turn Spencer has a "Rejoinder,"
reprinted in his _Various Fragments_ (New York, 1898). Gomme
supplements McLennan's evidences for his "Theory of the
Primitive Horde," in _Journal of Anth. Inst._, XVII (London,
1888); and this article is criticised by Wake, _Primitive
Human Horde_, reprinted from _ibid._, February, 1888. Morgan
is supported by Engels, _Ursprung der Familie_ (Stuttgart,
1892). His researches are appreciatively reviewed and
supplemented by Bernhöft, _Verwandtschaftsnamen und Eheformen
der nord-amerikanischen Volksstämme_ (Rostock, 1888); and
they are criticised by Lubbock, "On the Development of
Relationships," in _Journal of Anth. Inst._, I (London, 1872).
The views of Morgan and McLennan are examined by Wake in his
"Classificatory Systems of Relationship," _ibid._, VIII (London,
1879); and his "Primitive Human Family," _ibid._, IX (London,
1880). See also his "Nature and Origin of Group Marriage,"
_ibid._, XIII (London, 1884); and his _Le mariage communal_
(Paris, 1875), replying to Barbier. An able conservative
writer, vigorously and learnedly attacking the fundamental
conclusions of recent sociological and ethnological science, is
Schneider, _Die Naturvölker: Missverständnisse, Missdeutungen
und Misshandlungen_ (Paderborn and Münster, 1885-86). He is
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