Studies in Ancient History: Comprising a Reprint of Primitive Marriage ... By the Late John Ferguson McLennanMacmillan and Company, 1886 - 387 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
agnation ancient appears blood blood-ties bride bridegroom brothers and sisters CALIFORNIA LIBRARY called capturing wives ceremony Circassians classificatory system cohabitation common communal marriage connection consanguinity daughters deirbfine descent endogamous existence exogamous tribes exogamy explanation fact family system father female kinship form of capture geilfine division grandsons Greece Greeks groups Hawaian custom Herodotus Homeric husbands iarfine indfine Indian intermarriage Irish Iroquois Kalmucks keiki Khonds kindred kinship through females kinship through males Levirate Lycaon Lycians makua Malayan form marriage marry Meleager mkûa monandry mother Nair origin patria potestas persons polyandry polygyny practice of capturing prevailed Primitive Marriage races Rakshasas regarded relations right of succession savage says Sir John Lubbock sons Sparta Spartans stage system of capturing system of kinship system of relationships Tibetan Tibetan polyandry tion traces tribal Turanian UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA waheena wife woman women
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Página 204 - And Joseph made haste ; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother : and he sought where to weep ; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
Página 196 - And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.
Página 18 - ... mounted behind her nearest kinsman, is carried off, and is pursued by the bridegroom and his friends with loud shouts. It is not uncommon, on such an occasion, to see two or three hundred sturdy Cambro-Britons riding at full speed, crossing and jostling, to the no small amusement of the spectators. When they have fatigued themselves and their horses, the bridegroom is suffered to overtake his bride. He leads her away in triumph, and the scene is concluded, with feasting and festivity.
Página 150 - Romans may be taken as a type of them, and they are so described to us that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concentric circles which have gradually expanded from the same point. The elementary group is the family, connected by common subjection to the highest male ascendant.
Página 119 - Women were formerly unconfined, and roved about at their pleasure, independent. Though in their youthful innocence, they abandoned their husbands, they were guilty of no offence ; for such was the rule in early times. This ancient custom is even now the law for creatures born as brutes, which are free from lust and anger. This custom is supported by authority and is observed by great rishis, and it is still practised among the northern Kurus.
Página 5 - ... primitive races which we examine, we find such realities as might naturally pass into such forms on an advance taking place in civility, then we may safely conclude (keeping within the conditions of a sound inference) that what these now are, those employing the symbols once were.
Página 172 - On the day of bringing home, the Bridegroom and his friends ride out, and meet the Bride and her friends at the place of treaty.
Página 15 - Calmucks is performed on horseback. A girl is first mounted, who rides off at full speed. Her lover pursues, and if he overtakes her she becomes his wife and the marriage is consummated upon the spot, after which she returns with him to his tent.
Página 43 - The seizure of a maiden by force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen and friends have been slain in battle, or wounded and their houses broken open, is the marriage styled Racshasa.
Página 106 - Turner says, may seldom exceed that which a native of rank at Teshoo Loomboo pointed out to him in a family resident in the neighbourhood, in which five brothers were then living together very happily with one female under the same connubial compact. Nor is this sort of league confined to the lower ranks of people alone; it is found also frequently in the most opulent families.