[Footnote 1: _Les Baronga_, Attinger, Neufchâtel, 1898, pp. 82-87.] [Footnote 2: _Op. cit._ pp. 487-489.] INDEX Aboriginal man, Mr. Darwin’s view of, 209; Mr. Atkinson on, 220 Affinity, degrees of, prohibiting marriage, 188; most stringently applied by least civilised races, 2; differences of opinion among students of the question, 2; existing laws not an indication of primitive rules, 2; Australian anomaly, 88 Age distinction and the classificatory system, Mr. Atkinson on, 290 Altruism, possible germ of, in nascent man, 232 American ethnological terms, 10 Andrews, Judge, on Hawaiian marriage relationships, 98 Animal guardians among savages, 131 Annamese family relationships, Dr. Westermarck on, 240 Anomaly, totem, among the Arunta, 85 Anthropoid adult males unsocial, 220 Aristotle and early human society, 7 Arunta tribe of Central Australia, 2, 11; descent reckoned in the male line, 15, 69; supposed ignorance of procreation, 20; a ‘marriage ceremony,’ 24; reincarnation superstition, 31, 139; totem marriage-prohibition now extinct, 41; totem common to both phratries, 46, 56; totem groups preceded phratries, 61; Mr. Spencer on the introduction of exogamy, 61; totem influence, 61; traditions as to change of custom, 67; Mr. Frazer’s opinion of the tribe, 68; intermarry with the Urabunna, 69; theory of evolution, 70; totemism, 70; belief in reincarnation, 71; totem eating, 71; Dr. Durkheim’s views, 72; opinion of Spencer and Gillen, 73; marital relationship, 74; relations of totems and phratries, 74; myths, 75; Dr. Durkheim on, 75; Messrs. Spencer and Gillen’s opinions, 76, 77; institution of marriage regulations, 78; phratries and totems, 81; Dr. Durkheim’s views on the phratry, 82; totemic divisions, 83; origin of the anomalous marriage system, 85; philosophy of souls, 86; relationships prohibiting marriage, 88; curiosities of affinity, 88; terms of relationship, 93; relationship customs, 96; legislation, 108; legend regarding marriage limits, 108; class system with male descent, 120; totems and magic, 196, 198 Atkinson, Mr., his speculations on human origin, 3; on primitive man’s polygamy, 4; his theories and the Biblical account, 7; disbelief in early promiscuity, 9; views on the effect of sexual jealousy, 9, 18, 30; his opinion on exogamy and totemism, 17; his exogamous marriage hypothesis, 18; his ‘primal law,’ 19; on the origin of the ‘classificatory system,’ 108; on New Caledonian totems, 136; and the custom of avoidance, 212, 264; on the origin of exogamy, 212, 238; aboriginal man polygamous, 220; man’s distinction in the primal law, 225;