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
[422] Hanoteau et Letourneux, _La Kabylie_, t. ii. p. 148.
[423] _Id., ibid._ p. 149.
[424] _Id., ibid._ p. 150.
[425] _Id., ibid._ p. 162.
[426] _Id., ibid._ pp. 152, 153.
[427] _Id., ibid._
[428] Hanoteau et Letourneux, _La Kabylie_, t. ii. p. 161.
[429] _Id., ibid._ p. 151.
[430] _Id., ibid._ t. ii. p. 165.
[431] _Id., ibid._ p. 169.
[432] _Id., ibid._ t. ii. p. 146.
[433] _Id., ibid._ p. 151.
[434] Diodorus, book i. 80.
[435] W. Prescott, _Hist. of the Conquest of Peru_, vol. i. p. 46.
[436] W. Prescott, _Hist. of the Conquest of Mexico_, vol. i. p.
121.--Herbert Spencer, _Sociology_, vol. ii. p. 283.
[437] F. Müller, _Allgem. Ethnogr._, p. 263.
[438] Herbert Spencer, _Sociology_, vol. ii. p. 295.
[439] C. de Harlez, _Avesta_, Introd. clxxi.
[440] _Rig-Veda_, sec. viii., lect. viii., H. xx., ver. 45.
[441] _Rig-Veda_, sec. iii., H. ii., ver. 17.
[442] _Ibid._ sec. viii., H. xvii., ver. 5, 6.
[443] _Ibid._ sec. iii., lect. iv., ver. 3.
[444] _Ibid._ sec. vii., lect. viii., H. xxvi., ver. 2.
[445] E. Burnouf, _Essai sur le Véda_, p. 213.
[446] _Code of Manu_, ix. ver. 149-151.
[447] _Ibid._ xi. ver. 5.
[448] _Code of Manu_, vii. ver. 219, 221, and 224.
[449] Wake, _Evolution of Morality_, vol. ii. p. 241.
[450] _Lettres édif._, t. vi. p. 26; t. xv. p. 286; t. xii. p. 416.
[451] Wake, _loc. cit._, vol. ii. p. 230.
CHAPTER X.
PROSTITUTION AND CONCUBINAGE.
I. _Concubinage in General._--Frequency and reason of polygamic
instincts--Palliatives of monogamy.
II. _Prostitution._--Primitive prostitution--Slow rise
of scruples--Specialisation of prostitution in civilised
societies--Prostitution in the ancient States of Central America,
in China and Japan--The right of the father, and prostitution in
Japan--Prostitution in India--Religious prostitution--Prostitution in
Europe.
III. _Various Forms of Concubinage._--The concubinate--Concubine
captives in Judæa and Homeric Greece--Some modern facts of the same
kind--Slave concubines in Africa, in Abyssinia, and Madagascar--Legal
concubinate in Central America--Categories of the concubinate
in Mexico--The “lesser wives” in Tartary and China--Concubines
in Assyria, among the Arabs, and in India--Greek hetaïrism--The
concubinate in ancient Rome--The concubinate of the primitive catholic
clergy--Concubines “by precaution”--Contemporary concubinage--Why it
does not exist in Kabyle--The evolution of concubinage.
I. _Concubinage in General._
As a connecting link between polygamy and monogamy, concubinage
deserves special study.
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