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
"the separate endogamous tribes are nearly as numerous, and they are
in some respects as rude, as the separate exogamous tribes." He goes
even farther, declaring that among a variety of tribes, belonging to
"one and the same original stock," endogamy and exogamy are found
existing side by side.[265]
[258] _Principles of Sociology_, I, 641 ff. In general for
criticism and summary of McLennan's views see MORGAN,
_Ancient Society_, 509-21; MAINE, _Early Law and
Custom_, 106 ff., 123, 124, 150, 192-228; GIRAUD-TEULON,
_Origines du mariage_, 102 ff., _passim_; SMITH,
_Kinship and Marriage_, 80, 118, 121, 129 ff., 230; FISON
AND HOWITT, _Kamilaroi and Kurnai_, 23 ff., 67, 101 ff.,
130 ff.; LUBBOCK, _Origin of Civilization_, 102,
109, 130, 143 ff., _passim_; SCHURMAN, _The Ethical
Import of Darwinism_, chap, vi; MASON, _Woman's Share
in Primitive Culture_, chap, x; STARCKE, _Primitive
Family_, 94 ff., 128 ff., 141 ff., _passim_; WAKE,
_Marriage and Kinship_, 14 ff., 58 ff., 134 ff., 253 ff.,
297 ff., _passim_; _idem_, "Primitive Family," _Jour. Anth.
Inst._, August, 1879; KAUTSKY, in _Kosmos_, XII, 258
ff.; WESTERMARCK, Index; SPENCER, _Various
Fragments_, 70 ff.; GOMME, "Primitive Human Horde,"
_Jour. Anth. Inst._, XVII, 118-33; who is criticised by
WAKE, "Primitive Human Horde," _ibid._, November, 1887,
276 ff.
[259] Such is the view of LUBBOCK, _Origin of
Civilization_, 103, 129, 134, 135; WESTERMARCK, _Human
Marriage_, 466, 472, 473, 547; FISON AND HOWITT, _op.
cit._, 133 ff., 171 ff., 190, 357; WAKE, _Marriage
and Kinship_, 75 ff. "It is not proved that the tribes which
practice child-murder put to death the female infants by
preference."--STARCKE, _op. cit._, 131 ff. Such is
also the opinion of FISON AND HOWITT, _loc. cit._;
LUBBOCK, _op. cit._, 103; DARWIN, _Descent of
Man_, II, 364, 591-93; and GIRAUD-TEULON, _op. cit._,
110-16. See also SMITH, _Kinship and Marriage in Early
Arabia_, 129, 130, 279-85; FRIEDRICHS, "Familienstufen,"
_ZVR._, X, 219-37; PLOSS, _Das Kind_, II, 243-64;
_idem_, _Das Weib_, I, 250, 251; GROSSE, _Die Formen
der Familie_, 36; SCHNEIDER, _Die Naturvölker_, I, 297
ff.; MARTIN, _Hist. de la femme_, 3 ff.; and various
examples in _ZVR._, VII, 355, 374; IX, 14 ff. (Todas); X, 122;
XI, 427 (Kamerun); BROUARDEL, _L'infanticide_ (Paris,
1897); MARSHALL, _A Phrenologist amongst the Todas_,
108 ff., 190 ff.; NELSON, "The Eskimo about Bering
Strait," in _XVIII. Rep. of Bureau of Eth._, Part I, 289;
CHAMBERLAIN, _The Child_, etc., 110 ff.
In his second series of _Studies_, 74, 111, MCLENNAN
defends his view as to the prevalence of female infanticide and
presents a mass of facts relating to it among many peoples.
FARRER, _Early Wedding Customs_, 224, denies that
infanticide is the cause of exogamy.
[260] SPENCER, _op. cit._, I, 646.
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