A History of Matrimonial Institutions Chiefly in England and the United States: With an Introductory Analysis of the Literature and the Theories of Primitive Marriage and the Family, المجلد 2

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University of Chicago Press, Callaghan, 1904
 

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الصفحة 3 - The principal argument, of course, as will presently appear, is grounded upon the existence of polyandry, and especially upon the proofs adduced of the wide prevalence of kinship reckoned through the mother's line. For it is generally assumed that this system can arise only when paternity is uncertain. Legalized hetairism or prostitution,* practiced i WESTEEMABCK, op.
الصفحة i - It must suffice for the present to note that, according to recent investigation, every instance of alleged indiscriminate sexual relations appears to stop far short of absolute promiscuity.
الصفحة 4 - Li.tourneau, and others will be discussed in the next chapter. under various forms and restrictions among many peoples, savage, barbarous, and civilized, is thought to be a proof of original communism.1 The same is true of " proof marriages,"2 existing among the Wotjaken, Burmese, the Germans, in Loango, and elsewhere; of "temporary...

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