[The family. Theory of Mr. Atkinson]—[Primitiveness in man]—[Recent history of the speculation as to the early human family]—[What is exogamy? Difficulties of terminology]—[Totemism and exogamy]—[Theories of exogamy. Mr. McLellan's theory]—[Mr. Crawley's theory]—[Dr. Westermarck's theory]—[Mr. Morgan's theory]—[Return to the author's theory]
CHAPTER II
[The class system in Australia]—[The varieties of marriage divisions in Australia]—[Mr. Fison on the great bisection]—['Primary classes?']—[The 'primary divisions' are themselves totemic and exogamous]—[The totem difficulty]
CHAPTER III
[American support of the author's hypothesis]—[Deliberate arrangement]—[Totems all the way]—[Distribution of totems in the 'phratries']—[The ideas of Mr. Frazer. His earlier theory]—[Objections to Mr. Frazer's early theory]—[Mr. Spencer's theories of the bisection]—[Advantages of the system here proposed]—[The Arunta]—[Arunta metaphysics]—[Arunta totem eating and traditions]—[Dr. Durkheim on the Arunta]—[The relations of totems and 'phratries' among the Arunta]—[Arunta myths]—[Mr. Spencer on Arunta legends]
CHAPTER IV