Studies in Ancient History: The Second Series; Comprising an Inquiry Into the Origin of ExogamyMacmillan, 1896 - 605 עמודים A comprehensive anthropological and historical study of marriage and women's social role in Australia, Africa, the Americas, etc. |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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Africa ancient animal appears Ashantee Australia Bamangwato Bancroft Bear Bechuanas believe belonged Berbers bird blood blood-feud Brahmanic brother Bushmen called capture chief child clan coins common connection custom daughter death descent district division doubt eldest evidence exogamy fact father female infanticide female kinship Fiji fish Fison genealogies gods hapu heir horse Howitt human husband hypothesis Indians infer inhabitants Ippai Ippata Iroquois island Kamilaroi Kapota kill kindred king Kubbi Kumbo Kurnai Lakemba Levirate lion Livingstone Mahābhārata Makololo male kinship Mangaia marriage marriage law marry Mata Mbau means mentioned mother Murri nations natives Opossum origin persons polyandry polygamy polygyny practice priest races relations religiously regarded sacred says serpent sister snake Somosomo sons statement succession system of kinship Tangaloa Thessalia Thibetan tion totem totem stage town tradition tribes Turtle Vasu Vatea village wife wives Wolf woman women worship Zulus
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עמוד 170 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
עמוד 177 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
עמוד 546 - He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
עמוד 602 - ... result of their deliberations being a petition to the Mooramoora, in answer to which he ordered that the tribe should be divided into branches, and distinguished one from the other by different names, after objects animate and inanimate, such as dogs, mice, emu, rain, iguana, and so forth, the members of any such branch not to intermarry, but with permission for one branch to mingle with another.
עמוד 468 - What a villain you are to boast of killing women and children of your own nation ! What will God say when you appear before him ?' ' He will say,' replied he, ' that I was a very clever fellow.
עמוד 457 - My place is always next the chief on this side ; " another adds, " And mine is always next on that side," and so on till the whole town is laid out.
עמוד 223 - Vasu. The word means a nephew or niece, but becomes a title of office in the case of the male, who, in some localities, has the extraordinary privilege of appropriating whatever he chooses belonging to his uncle, or those under his uncle's power.
עמוד 364 - Each vanquech was a city of refuge, with rights of sanctuary exceeding any ever granted in Jewish or Christian countries. Not only was every criminal safe there, whatever his crime, but the crime was, as it were, blotted out from that moment, and the offender was at liberty to leave the sanctuary and walk about as before ; it was not lawful even to mention his crime ; all that the avenger could do was to point at him and deride him, saying : Lo, a coward, who has been forced to flee to Chinigchinich...
עמוד 450 - bina,< to dance, in reference to the custom of thus naming themselves, so that, when you wish to ascertain what tribe they belong to, you say, ' What do you dance ? ' It would seem as if that had been part of the worship of old.
עמוד 166 - THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam; in the day when they were created.