The history of human marriage.

  • Edvard Westermarck
Date:
1894
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Credit: The history of human marriage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of endogamous peoples to die out, pp. 346-350.—Peoples who ascribe evil results to close intermarriage, pp. 350-352.—The horror of incest due to natural selection, ]5p. 352, et seq.—Exogamy arose when single families united in small hordes, p. 353.—-Love excited by contrasts, pp. 353-355. CHAPTER XVI SEXUAL SELECTION AS INFLUENCED BY AFFECTION AND SYMPATHY, AND BY CALCULATION The compound character of love, p. 356.—Conjugal affection, at the lower stages of civilization, less intense than parental love, pp. 356-358.— Conjugal affec- tion among savages, pp. 358, ct .w/.—Among primitive men, pp. 359, et seq. —Mutual love as the motive which leads to marriage, pp. 360, et seq.— Sexual love has developed in proportion as altruism has increased, ?/^?V/.—Sexual love among the Eastern nations, ibid.—Sexual selection determined by intel- lectual, emotional, and moral qualities, p. 362.—Sexual selection influenced by sympathy, pp. 362-376.—By age, p. 362.—By the degree of cultivation, pp. 362, et seq.—Racial and national endogamy, pp. 363-365.—Tribal, communal, and clan-endogamy, pp. 365-368.—The origin of castes and classes, pp. 368, et seq.—Want of sympathy between different classes, pp. 369, et seq.—Class- and caste-endogamy, pp. 370-373.—The decline of national and class-endogamy in modern society, pp. 373, et seq.—Religion a bar to intermarriage, pp. 374- 376.—The increase of mixed marriages, p. 376.—Desire for offspring, pp. 376-378.—Appreciation of female fecundity, p. 378.-—Sexual selection in- fluenced by the desire for offspring, pp. 378, et seq.—The causes of this desire, pp. 379, et seq.—With the progress of civilization this desire has be- come less intense, p. 381.—A wife chosen because of her ability as a labourer, pp. 381, et seq.—A husband chosen because of his ability to protect and provide for a wife and offspring, p. 382.—Wife-purchase and hnstand- purchase in modern society, ibid. CHAPTER XVn MARRIAGE BY CAPTURE AND MARRIAGE BY PURCHASE Marriage by capture as a reality or as a symbol among uncivilized races, pp. 383- 386.—Among peoples of the Aryan race, pp. 386, et seq.—No evidence that marriage by capture has prevailed among every race, p. 387.—Marriage with capture, p. 388.—Marriage by capture and exogamy, pp. 388, et seq.—The origin of marriage by capture, p. 389.—Marriage by capture once the normal, never the exclusive form of contracting marriage, ibid.—Marriage by exchange, p. 390.—Wives obtained by service, pp. 390-392.—Wives obtained by actual purchase, pp. 392-394.—Marriage on credit, p. 394.—Marriage by purchase among civilized races, pp. 394-397.—Lower peoples among whom marriage by purchase does not exist, pp. 397-399.—Marriage by purchase a more recent stage than marriage by capture, pp. 399-401.—Barter a comparatively late invention of man, pp. 400, et seq.—Transition from marriage by capture to marriage by purchase, p. 401.—The bride-price a compensation for the loss sustained in giving up the girl, p. 402.—Bargain about women, ibid.— Savage views on marriage by purchase, ibid.
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