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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3
George Elliott Howard
Did the family begin with the all-powerful father? George Elliott Howard opens his monumental survey by putting the patriarchal theory on trial, weighing Spencer, McLennan and mother-right against the evidence, then tracing early wedding customs toward recorded law. Volume one of three, and the foundation of the whole argument. Scholarship with the sweep of a saga.
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48 chapters
- 1a history of Matrimonial Institutions
- 2PREFACE
- 3ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER I THE PATRIARCHAL THEORY
- 5I. STATEMENT OF THE THEORY
- 6II. CRITICISM OF THE THEORY BY SPENCER AND McLENNAN
- 7III. THE THEORY IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT RESEARCH
- 8CHAPTER II THEORY OF THE HORDE AND MOTHER-RIGHT
- 9I. BACHOFEN AND HIS DISCIPLES
- 10II. MORGAN'S CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY
- 11III. McLENNAN'S CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY
- 12CHAPTER III THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY
- 13I. THE PROBLEM OF PROMISCUITY
- 14II. THE PROBLEM OF MOTHER-RIGHT
- 15III. THE PROBLEM OF EXOGAMY
- 16IV. THE PROBLEM OF THE SUCCESSIVE FORMS OF THE FAMILY
- 17CHAPTER IV RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
- 18I. WIFE-CAPTURE AND THE SYMBOL OF RAPE[472]
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