The family : an ethnographical and historical outline with descriptive notes, planned as a text-book for the use of college lecturers and of directors of home-reading clubs / by Elsie Crews Parsons.

Elsie Clews Parsons

Date:: 1906

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: The family : an ethnographical and historical outline with descriptive notes, planned as a text-book for the use of college lecturers and of directors of home-reading clubs / by Elsie Crews Parsons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Preface seem in Lecture 15 undue frankness in refusing to shirk consideration of possible issues. In view of the simple character of the lecture out¬ lines as schemes of classification references to authori¬ ties are seldom made. All of the works given in the bibliographical notes have been of more or less service. I am under special obligation to Post, Dargun, and Steinmetz. The notes by Steinmetz which are scat¬ tered through the answers to the question schedules on the juridical relations of the natives of Africa and Oceanica of the Internationale Vereinigung fur ver¬ gleichende Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschafts¬ lehre zu Berlin, as well as his methodological criticism in Die Tieueren Forschungen zur Geschichte der men¬ schlichen Familie {Zt. f. Socialw., II, 1899, 685-695), are especially valuable. Howard's useful summaries in the introductory chapters of his History of Matri¬ monial Institutionsvjç^rç^ time-saving in the preparation of the bibliographical notes. Professor Giddings has been kind enough to read Lecture 15 in manuscript and to suggest a clearer statement than that originally made about the conditions for youthful trial marriage.$