CHAPTER V
Results in strengthening the groups which admit several adult males—Disappearance of hostile band of exiled young males—Relations of sire and female mates of young males now within the group—Father-in-law and daughter-in-law avoidance—Rights as between two generations—Elder brother and younger brother's wife avoidances—Note on hostile capture
CHAPTER VI
Resemblance of semi-brutal group, at this stage, to actual savage tribe—Resemblance merely superficial—In this hypothetical semi-brutal group paternal incest survives—Causes of its decline and extinction—The sire's widows of the group—Arrival of outside suitors for them—Brothers of wives of the group—New comers barred from marital rights over their daughters—Jealousy of their wives intervenes—Value of sisters to be bartered for sisters of another group discovered—Consequent resistance to incest of group sire—Natural selection favours groups where resistance is successful—Cousinage recognised in practice—Intermarrying sets of cousins become phratries—Exceptional cases of permitted incest in chiefs and kings—No known trace of avoidance between father and daughter—Progress had rendered such law superfluous
CHAPTER VII
[TRACES OF PERIOD OF TRANSITION AVOIDANCES]
Survivals in custom testify to a long period of transition from group to tribe—Stealthy meetings of husband and wife—Examples—Evidence to a past of jealousy of incestuous group sire—Evidence from teknonymy—Husband named as father of his child—Formal capture as a symbol of legal marriage—Avoidance between father-in-law and son-in-law—Arose in stage of transition—Causes of mother-in-law and son-in-law avoidance—Influence of jealousy—Examples—Mr. Tylor's statistics—Resentment of capture not primal cause of this avoidance—Note on avoidance.
CHAPTER VIII