The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

Name: The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family
Author: Ch. Letourneau

by Ch. Letourneau

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THE EVOLUTION OF MARRIAGE AND OF THE FAMILY
CONTENTS.
PREFACE.
THE EVOLUTION OF MARRIAGE AND OF THE FAMILY.
CHAPTER I. THE BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE.
I. The True Place of Man.
II. Reproduction.
III. Rut and Love.
IV. Loves of Animals.
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CHAPTER II. MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY AMONGST ANIMALS.
I. The Preservation of Species.
II. Marriage and the Rearing of Young amongst Animals.
III. The Family amongst Animals.
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CHAPTER III. PROMISCUITY.
I. Has there been a Stage of Promiscuity?
II. Some Cases of Human Promiscuity.
III. Hetaïrism.—Jus primæ noctis.
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CHAPTER IV. SOME SINGULAR FORMS OF SEXUAL ASSOCIATION.
I. Primitive Sexual Immorality.
II. Some Strange Forms of Marriage.
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CHAPTER V. POLYANDRY.
I. Sexual Proportion of Births, and its Influence on Marriage.
II. Ethnography of Polyandry.
III. Polyandry in Ancient Arabia.
IV. Polyandry in General.
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CHAPTER VI. MARRIAGE BY CAPTURE.
I. Rape.
II. Marriage by Capture.
III. Signification of the Ceremonial of Capture.
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CHAPTER VII. MARRIAGE BY PURCHASE AND BY SERVITUDE.
I. The Power of Parents.
II. Marriage by Servitude.
III. Marriage by Purchase.
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CHAPTER VIII. PRIMITIVE POLYGAMY.
I. Polygamy in Oceania, Africa, and America.
II. Polygamy in Asia and Europe.
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CHAPTER IX. POLYGAMY OF CIVILISED PEOPLE.
I. The Stage of Polygamy.
II. Arab Polygamy.
III. Polygamy in Egypt, Mexico, and Peru.
IV. Polygamy in Persia and India.
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CHAPTER X. PROSTITUTION AND CONCUBINAGE.
I. Concubinage in General.
II. Prostitution.
III. Various Forms of Concubinage.
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CHAPTER XI. PRIMITIVE MONOGAMY.
I. The Monogamy of Inferior Races.
II. Monogamy in the Ancient States of Central America.
III. Monogamy in Ancient Egypt.
IV. The Monogamy of the Touaregs and Abyssinians.
V. Monogamy among the Mongols of Asia.
VI. Monogamy and Civilisation.
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CHAPTER XII. HEBREW AND ARYAN MONOGAMY.
I. Monogamy of the Races called Superior.
II. Hebrew Marriage.
III. Marriage in Persia and Ancient India.
IV. Marriage in Ancient Greece.
V. Marriage in Ancient Rome.
VI. Barbarous Marriage and Christian Marriage.
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CHAPTER XIII. ADULTERY.
I. Adultery in General.
II. Adultery in Melanesia.
III. Adultery in Black Africa.
IV. Adultery in Polynesia.
V. Adultery in Savage America.
VI. Adultery in Barbarous America.
VII. Adultery among the Mongol Races and in Malaya.
VIII. Adultery among the Egyptians, the Berbers, and the Semites.
IX. Adultery in Persia and India.
X. Adultery in the Greco-Roman World.
XI. Adultery in Barbarous Europe.
XII. Adultery in the Past and in the Future.
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CHAPTER XIV. REPUDIATION AND DIVORCE.
I. In Savage Countries.
II. Divorce and Repudiation among Barbarous Peoples.
III. The Evolution of Divorce.
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CHAPTER XV. WIDOWHOOD AND THE LEVIRATE.
I. Widowhood in Savage Countries.
II. Widowhood in Barbarous Countries.
III.—The Levirate.
IV. Conclusions.
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CHAPTER XVI. THE FAMILIAL CLAN IN AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA.
I. The Family.
II. The Family in Melanesia.
III. The Family in America.
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CHAPTER XVII. THE FAMILIAL CLAN AND ITS EVOLUTION.
I. The Clan among the Redskins.
II. The Family among the Redskins.
III. The Family in Polynesia.
IV. The Family among the Mongols.
V. The Evolution of the System of Kinship by Classes.
VI. The Clan and the Family.
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CHAPTER XVIII. THE MATERNAL FAMILY.
I. The Familial Clan and the Family properly so-called.
II. The Family in Africa.
III. The Family in Malaya.
IV. The Family among the Naïrs of Malabar.
V. The Family among the Aborigines of Bengal.
VI. The Couvade.
VII. The Primitive Family.
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CHAPTER XIX. THE FAMILY IN CIVILISED COUNTRIES.
I. The Family in China.
II. The Family among Semitic Races.
III. The Family among the Berbers.
IV. The Family in Persia.
V. The Family in India.
VI. The Greco-Roman Family.
VII. The Family in Barbarous Europe.
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CHAPTER XX. MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY IN THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE.
I. The Past.
II. The Present.
III. The Future.
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