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Theories of Primitive Marriage

Theories of Primitive Marriage

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 1548799866
ISBN13: 9781548799861
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 10 2017
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
This book deals with the history of primitive marriage as that developed by Ferguson McLennan through his work on primitive marriage. Arguing from the prevalence of the symbolical form of capture in the marriage ceremonies of primitive races, he developed an intelligible picture of the growth of the marriage relation and of systems of kinship according to natural laws. In his ingenious and interesting work on Primitive Marriage, the words exogamy and endogamy are used by Mr. McLennan to distinguish the two practices of taking to wife women belonging to other tribes, and taking to wife women belonging to the same tribe. As explained in his preface, his attention was drawn to these diverse customs by an inquiry into the meaning and origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies; an inquiry which led him to a general theory of early sexual relations...

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