 | Richard Thurnwald - 1916 - 152 pages
...existed "in which the paramours had a recognized status." Of the paramours Rivers, (i, p. 387) says, Those who would seem to have had the most definite...within which all the males had marital rights over all the females, and I am told that even now, nearly a century after the general acceptance of Christianity,... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1921 - 604 pages
...marriage as a social institution there existed among the Sandwich Islanders much laxity, and also " a definite system of cicisbeism in which the paramours...within which all the males had marital rights over all the females " ; and Dr. Rivers was told that even now, nearly a century after the general acceptance... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1922 - 620 pages
...marriage as a social institution there existed among the Sandwich Islanders much laxity, and also " a definite system of cicisbeism in which the paramours...-within which all the males had marital rights over all the females " ; and Dr. Rivers was told that even now, nearly a century after the general acceptance... | |
 | American Anthropological Association - 1916 - 584 pages
...existed "in which the paramours had a recognized status." Of the paramours Rivers, (i, p. 387) says, Those who would seem to have had the most definite...within which all the males had marital rights over all the females, and I am told that even now, nearly a century after the general acceptance of Christianity,... | |
 | William Halse Rivers Rivers - 1968 - 474 pages
...right. Another and more important institution is that of the punal^^a. There existed among the Hawaians a definite system of cicisbeism in which the paramours...within which all the males had marital rights over all the females, and I was told that even now, nearly a century after the general acceptance of Christianity,... | |
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Islanders much laxity, and also " a definite system of cicisbeism in which the paramours had a recognised status. Of these paramours those who would seem to have had the .most definite status were certain relatives, viz. the brothers of the husband and... 