Early belief in mutual danger of mankind, 24
Eguilles, Marquis d’, and Kanaka relationship names, 137
Egypt, royal intermarriage, 1, 262
Egyptian totemic myths, 201
Endogamy, meaning of, 12
English village sobriquets, 173, 295
Erman, Adolf, on Yakut avoidance, 275
Euahlayi, the, 29; Mrs. Langloh Parker on the, 186 n; myth, 66
Evolution of primal law of avoidance, Mr. Atkinson on the, 210
Exchange, commercial, among Australian tribes, 6
Exogamy, meaning of the term, 10;
anterior to totems, opinions on, 17;
Mr. McLennan’s theory, 21;
Mr. Crawley’s theory, 23;
Dr. Westermarck’s theory, 33;
Mr. Morgan’s theory, 33;
the author’s theory, 34;
the result of evolution, 53;
Mr. Frazer’s earlier ideas on, 57;
objections to, 59; his later theory, 62;
advantages of the system now proposed, 63;
ignored by theorists on group totemism, 160;
Mr. Atkinson on origin of, 212, 238;
earlier view quoted, 212
Exogamy among the Arunta, 61
Exogamy and totemism, Mr. Taylor’s view, 17
Exogamy, local, origin of, 31
Family, the, its antiquity, 1; secured by dread of aberrations, 1;
laws and customs vary, 1; uncivilised races and prohibited
marriages, 2;
present-day institutions no guide to prehistoric customs, 2;
conjectures as to primitive state, 4; patriarchal family the
original social unit, 7; descent counted through the maternal
line, 8, 21;
suggestions as to early promiscuity, 9;
promiscuity prevented by sexual jealousy, 9;
totemism, 14; family group or ‘fire circle,’ 14, 17;
exogamous tendencies, 17; Mr. Crawley on the effect of jealousy,
19;
matriarchal theory, 20; Mr. McLennan’s theory of family exogamy,
21;
Mr. Crawley’s theory, 23
Father--and--daughter avoidance, Veddah, 274
Father-in-law and daughter-in-law, customs concerning, 272, 275
Father-in-law avoidance, Mr. Atkinson on, 263, 277
Female infanticide in first stages of society, 21
Fijian ‘totem gods,’ 137
Fison, Mr., on Kamilaroi marriage laws, 28;
and the class system in Australia, 37;
on Australian tribal division, 42;
controverted by the author, 43;
on the origin of totems, 45;
on the change of totems, 48;
on the origin of exogamy, 65, 97;
his suggestion of Divine intervention, 91;
on terms of relationship, 95;
quotes Mr. Lance on communal marriage, 106
Fison and Howitt, Messrs., on totemism, 16;
their theories insufficient, 51;
hypothesis as to Greek totemism, 203
Fletcher, Miss Alice, on totem origin, 151;
on Omaha magical societies, 198
Folk-lore illustrative of totem group names, 169
France, miniature palæolithic bull-roarers found in, 5
Frazer, Mr., bibliography of the bull-roarer, 5;
regards the Arunta as primitive, 20, 68;
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