Primitive society.
Publisher: Liveright Pub. Corp.
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: Ethnology; Primitive societies
Description: Survey of the social organization, family life, sexual practices, tribal association, and government of early man in all parts of the world.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 443-450.
"Black and gold edition."
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Marriage. Marriage prohibitions; title: Means of a mate; title: Preferential mating; title: Polygamy. Polygyny; title: Polyandry; title: Sexual communism; title: Hypothetical sexual communism; title: The family. The bilateral kin group; title: Looseness of the family unit; title: Matrilocal and patrilocal residence; title: Sexual division of labor; title: Segregation of unmarried; title: Sexual segregation; title: Adoption; title: Summary; title: Kinship usages. Mother’s and father’s kin; title: Parent-in-law taboo; title: Other taboos; title: Privileged familiarity; title: Taboo and license; title: Teknonymy; title: The sib. Types of sib organization; title: Unity or diversity of origin; title: Sibs of higher order; title: Totemism; title: History of the sib. Priority of the family; title: Origin of the sib; title: The sib and the Dakota terminology; title: Mother; title: Sibs and father-sibs; title: The position of woman. Theory and practice; title: The “matriarchate; title: Matrilocal residence; title: The economic interpretation; title: Correlations with stages of civilization; title: Property. Primitive communism; title: Tenure of land; title: Chattels; title: Incorporeal property; title: Inheritance; title: Associations. Andarnan Islands; title: Australia; title: Masai; title: Banks Islands; title: Pueblo Indians; title: Crow; title: Hidatsa; title: Theory of associations. Schurtz’s scheme; title: Sex dichotomy; title: Age classes; title: Varieties of associations; title: The Plains Indian Age-Societies; title: General conclusions; title: Rank. Bravery; title: Shamanism; title: Wealth; title: Caste; title: Conclusion; title: Government. Australia; title: Polynesia and Micronesia; title: Melanesia and New Guinea; title: Africa; title: North America; title: Democracy and primitive organizations; title: Tribal and territorial organization; title: Justice. Collective responsibility; title: Criminal motive; title: Weregild; title: Evidence; title: Australia; title: Ifugao; title: Eskimo; title: Plains Indians; title: Polynesia; title: Africa; title: Conclusion; title: Corrections and addenda.