The Evolution of Marriage and of the FamilyLetourneau, Ch. (Charles)
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The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family
Letourneau, Ch. (Charles)
Families; Marriage
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[372] J. Owen Dorsey, _Omaha Sociology_, p. 260 (_Smithsonian
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CHAPTER IX.
POLYGAMY OF CIVILISED PEOPLE.
I. _The Stage of Polygamy._--Primitive polygamy--Man resigns himself
to monogamy.
II. _Arab Polygamy._--Why the Mussulmans have remained polygamous--The
inferiority of woman proclaimed by the Koran--Polygamic restrictions
in the Koran--Religion sanctions the right of conjugal property--The
purchased woman--The conjugal prerogatives of the prophet--Duties of
the polygamous husband--Celestial polygamy--The Mussulman marriage
is laic--Female merchandise--The preliminaries of marriage--Duties
and obligations of the Mussulman husband; his rights--Marriage in
Kabyle--Cruel subjection of the Kabyle wife--Sale and purchase of the
wife--Excessive rights of the Kabyle husband--The Kabyle marriage is
inferior to the Arab marriage--Polygamy and the subjection of women.
III. _Polygamy in Egypt, Mexico, and Peru._--Monogamy of the priests
in Egypt--Polygamy of the Incas and of the nobles in Peru--Polygamy of
the nobles in Mexico--Polygamy with monogamic tendency.
IV. _Polygamy in Persia and India._--Polygamy and concubinage of
princes in Persia--Severity of sexual morality in the Avesta--Polygamy
according to the Rig-Veda--Polygamy in the Code of Manu--Evolution of
polygamy in India--How monogamy became established.
I. _The Stage of Polygamy._
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