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
[244] _Ibid._, I, 93 ff., 97, 133 ff.; II, 47-56; _Patriarchal
Theory_, 267 ff. In general, on polyandry, see MARSHALL,
_A Phrenologist amongst the Todas_, 190-232; STARCKE,
_op. cit._, 128-40, 77 ff., _passim_; SMITH, _Kinship
and Marriage_, 121 ff., 277-79; FISON AND HOWITT,
_op. cit._, 144 ff.; WAKE, _op. cit._, 134-78, Index;
GIRAUD-TEULON, _Origines du mariage_, 150 ff., 434
ff.; WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, chaps, xx-xxii, 3,
115-17, 547-49; MAYNE, _Hindu Law and Usage_, 60
ff.; SPENCER, _Principles of Sociology_, I, 672-81,
641 ff.; LUBBOCK, _Origin of Civilization_, 79,
143 ff.; SCHMIDT, _Jus primae noctis_, 35, 36,
319, 320; POST, _Familienrecht_, 54-63; _idem_,
_Afrikanische Jurisprudenz_, I, 40, 303; _idem_, _Die
Geschlechtsgenossenschaft_, 16 ff.; LETOURNEAU,
_L'évolution du mariage_, 40, 49, 90-109; MASON,
_Woman's Share in Primitive Culture_, 221, 222; MAINE,
_Early Law and Custom_, 106, 123, 200; FRIEDRICHS,
"Ursprung des Matriarchats," _ZVR._, VIII, 371 ff.; _idem_,
"Familienstufen und Eheformen," _ibid._, X, 257, 258;
MUCKE, _op. cit._, 181-38; KAUTSKY, "Entstehung
der Ehe und Familie," _Kosmos_, XII, 258, 264, 344-48;
BERNHÖFT, in _ZVR._, IX, 12 ff.; KOHLER, _op.
cit._, 143; GROSSE, _Die Formen der Familie_, 117 ff.;
HELLWALD, _op. cit._, 241-61; SCHNEIDER, _Die
Naturvölker_, II, 459 ff.; ACHELIS, _Entwicklung der
Ehe_, 28 ff.; ELLIS, in _Pop. Sci. Monthly_, Oct., 1891.
[245] MCLENNAN believes this form to be wide-spread. It
is found in Ceylon, among the Kasias and Saporogian Cossacks, and
elsewhere. The higher and lower forms often appear together among
the same people: _Studies_, I, 99 ff. "Beena" marriage of Ceylon
is believed to be a modification of their polyandry.
[246] BUCHANAN, _Journey_, II, 594; MCLENNAN,
_op. cit._, I, 102. _Cf._ on the Nairs, GIRAUD-TEULON,
_op. cit._, 150-64; STARCKE, _op. cit._, 83-87, 133 ff.;
SMITH, _Kinship and Marriage_, 122; LETOURNEAU,
_op. cit._, 99-101.
[247] _Cf._ SPENCER, _Principles of Sociology_, I, 676,
677.
[248] MARSHALL, _op. cit._, 210. According to FRAU
JANSSEN (_Globus_, XLIII, 371), it is the custom for
the "young wife to become the spouse of _all_ the brothers
of her husband; her first child counts as that of the eldest
brother, the second as that of the second, and so forth." _Cf._
HELLWALD, _op. cit._, 246.
[249] MARSHALL, _op. cit._, 206, 207. To be a _barudi_
or widow or a _baruda_ or widower is a term of reproach: _ibid._,
208.
[250] _Ibid._, 111, 196, 213.
[251] _Ibid._, 221. In this regard as in many others the Todas
resemble the Veddahs: SARASIN, _Die Weddas von Ceylon_,
I, 465-67. For a good account of polyandry among the Todas and
other peoples see HELLWALD, _op. cit._, 241 ff., 246 ff.
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