5. MODES OF CONTRACTING MARRIAGE Marriage by peaceful capture within the same kinship group--Exogamous marriage by barter--Marriage by purchase and marriage by contract--Survivals of marriage by capture. 6. THE CAUSES OF TOTEMIC EXOGAMY Relation of clan division to totem groups--Totem friendships--Parental and traditional totem alliances--The rise of exogamy with direct and with indirect maternal or paternal descent. 7. THE FORMS OF POLYGAMY Origin of group-marriage--Chief wife and secondary wives--Polyandry and polygyny and their combination--The prevalence and causes of these forms of marriage. 8. THE DEVELOPMENTAL FORMS OF TOTEMISM Two principles of classification--Tribal and individual totemism--Conception and sex totemism--Animal and plant totemism--Inanimate totems (churingas)--Relation to ancestor worship and to fetishism. 9. THE ORIGIN OF TOTEMIC IDEAS Theories based on names--Spencer and Lang--Frazer's theory of conception totemism as the origin of totemism--The animal transformations of the breath soul--Relations to soul belief--Soul animals as totem animals. 10. THE LAWS OF TABOO The concept 'taboo'--The taboo in Polynesia --The taboo of mother-in-law and father-in-law--Connection with couvade--The sacred and the impure--Rites of purification--Fire, water, and magical transference. 11. SOUL BELIEFS OF THE TOTEMIC AGE The psyche as a breath and shadow soul--Its relation to the corporeal soul--Chief bearers of the corporeal soul--Modes of disposition of the dead. 12. THE ORIGIN OF THE FETISH Fetishes in totem cult--Attainment of independence by fetishism--Fetishes as the earliest forms of the divine image--Retrogressive development of cult objects--Fetish cult as a cult of magic and demons--Amulet and talisman. 13. THE ANIMAL ANCESTOR AND THE HUMAN ANCESTOR The Mura-Mura legends of the Australians--The animal ancestor--Transition to the human ancestor--Relation to disposal of the corpse and to cults of the dead--Surviving influences of totemism in ancestor cult. 14. THE TOTEMIC CULTS Customs relating to disposition of the corpse and to sacrifices to the dead--Initiation into manhood--Vegetation cults--Australian Intichiuma festivals--Cults of the soil at the stage of hoe-culture--Underlying factor of community of labour--Unification of cult purposes and their combination with incipient deity cults. 15. THE ART OF THE TOTEMIC AGE Tatooing--Ceramics--Construction of dwellings--Pole-houses--The ceremonial dance--Instruments of concussion and wind Instruments--Cult-songs and work-songs--The märchen-myth and its developmental forms. CHAPTER III--THE AGE OF HEROES AND GODS