The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

Name: The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family
Author: Letourneau, Ch. (Charles)

Letourneau, Ch. (Charles)

Families; Marriage

_THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE SERIES._

  EDITED BY HAVELOCK ELLIS.

  EVOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

  THE EVOLUTION

  OF MARRIAGE

  AND OF THE FAMILY

  BY

  CH. LETOURNEAU,

  _General Secretary to the Anthropological Society of Paris,
  and Professor in the School of Anthropology_.

  LONDON
  WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE
  PATERNOSTER ROW
  1891.

  CONTENTS.

  CHAPTER I.
                                                                    PAGE

  THE BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE                                 1-19

  I. The True Place of Man in the Animal Kingdom.
  II. Reproduction.
  III. Rut and Love.
  IV. Love of Animals.

  CHAPTER II.

  MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY AMONGST ANIMALS                          20-36

  I. The Preservation of Species.
  II. Marriage and the Rearing of the Young among Animals.
  III. The Family amongst Animals.

  CHAPTER III.

  PROMISCUITY                                                      37-55

  I. Has there been a Stage of Promiscuity?
  II. Cases of Human Promiscuity.
  III. Hetaïrism.

  CHAPTER IV.

  SOME SINGULAR FORMS OF SEXUAL ASSOCIATION                        56-72

  I. Primitive Sexual Immorality.
  II. Some Strange Forms of Marriage.

  CHAPTER V.

  POLYANDRY                                                        73-88

  I. Sexual Proportion of Births: its Influence on Marriage.
  II. Ethnography of Polyandry.
  III. Polyandry in Ancient Arabia.
  IV. Polyandry in General.

  CHAPTER VI.

  MARRIAGE BY CAPTURE                                             89-104

  I. Rape.
  II. Marriage by Capture.
  III. Signification of the Ceremonial of Capture.

  CHAPTER VII.

  MARRIAGE BY PURCHASE AND BY SERVITUDE                          105-121

  I. The Power of Parents.
  II. Marriage by Servitude.
  III. Marriage by Purchase.

  CHAPTER VIII.

  PRIMITIVE POLYGAMY                                             122-137

  I. Polygamy in Oceania, Africa, and America.
  II. Polygamy in Asia and in Europe.

  CHAPTER IX.

  POLYGAMY OF CIVILISED PEOPLE                                   138-153

  I. The Stage of Polygamy.
  II. Arab Polygamy.
  III. Polygamy in Egypt, Mexico, and Peru.
  IV. Polygamy in Persia and India.

  CHAPTER X.

  PROSTITUTION AND CONCUBINAGE                                   154-170

  I. Concubinage in General.
  II. Prostitution.
  III. Various Forms of Concubinage.

  CHAPTER XI.

  PRIMITIVE MONOGAMY                                             171-187

  I. The Monogamy of Inferior Races.
  II. Monogamy in the Ancient States of Central America.
  III. Monogamy in Ancient Egypt.
  IV. Monogamy of the Touaregs and Abyssinians.
  V. Monogamy among the Mongols of Asia.
  VI. Monogamy and Civilisation.

  CHAPTER XII.

  HEBREW AND ARYAN MONOGAMY                                      188-206

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