The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and InstitutionsMacmillan, 1927 |
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A. W. Howitt Africa American ancient animals appears Aryan association Australian Aborigines bride British British Central Africa brothers Bureau of Ethnology character civilised clan common consanguineous constitution cousins culture custom daughter deaf-mutes effects existing exogamy fact father female fraternal polyandry group-marriage herd heredity History human husband Ibid inbreeding Indians individual marriage inherited instance Islands J. G. Frazer Journal live male marry maternal instincts matrilocal matrilocal marriage Melanesians mental mother Native Tribes natural Nayar Northern Notes observed offspring original parents patriarchal pirrauru polyandry polygyny present day primitive society Provinces race recognised regarded remarks Report Royal Asiatic Society rule savage says sentiments sexes sexual relations sisters social organisation sororal polygyny Tibet Tibetan tion traditional heredity tribal Tribes and Castes usage Voyage W. H. R. Rivers Westermarck wife wife's wives woman women young
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Page 149 - If a chick is born in the absence of the hen, it will follow any moving object. And, when guided by sight alone, they seem to have no more disposition to follow a hen than to follow a duck or a human being.
Page 306 - will be found, upon examination, to be free from frightful scars upon the head, or the marks of spear-wounds about the body. I have seen a young woman who, from the number of these marks, appeared to have been almost riddled with spear wounds.
Page 276 - When a young man takes a liking to a girl of another village, and the parents have no objection to the match, he is obliged to come and live at their village. He has to perform certain services for the mother-inlaw, such as keeping her well supplied with firewood ; and when he comes into her presence he is obliged to sit with his knees in a bent position, as putting out his feet towards the old lady would give her great offence.
Page 494 - The really responsible male relative is the mother's older brother. From him must leave to marry be obtained for either girl or boy; to him and the mother must the present be taken which is exacted on the marriage of a girl, and should the mother die, on him and not on the father, lies the responsibility of rearing the children. They go to his house and he treats and regards them as nearer and dearer to himself than his own children, and at his death, after his own brothers by the same mother, they...
Page 27 - When not hungry he used to sit petting and stroking a pariah or vagrant dog, which he used to permit to feed out of the same dish with him. A short time before his death, Captain Nicholetts shot this dog, as he used to eat the greater part of the food given to the boy, who seemed in consequence to be getting thin. The boy did not seem in the least to care for the death of the dog.
Page 35 - I gave her a spoon, which she threw on the floor. I forced her out of the chair and made her pick it up. Finally I succeeded in getting her back in her chair again, and held the spoon in her hand, compelling her to take up the food with it and put it in her mouth.
Page 118 - ... my neck and bit my cheeks. It was undoubtedly a curious way of making love, and, when I had been bitten all over, and was pretty tired of the new sensation, we retired to our respective homes. Kissing, apparently, was an unknown art to her.
Page 169 - The latter statement is certainly untrue for every one of the animals mentioned, and there is not, except as regards the hippopotamus, a word to suggest it in the authority which he cites.
Page 339 - In her childhood (a girl) should be under the will of her father ; in (her) youth, of (her) husband; her husband being dead, of her sons; a woman should never enjoy her own will" (130). *' Though of bad conduct or debauched, or even devoid of good qualities, a husband mustalways be worshipped like agod by a good wife.
Page 716 - 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 the sisters of the wife. These formed a group -within which all the males had marital rights over all the females