The Position of Woman in Primitive Society: A Study of the Matriarchy

by C. Gasquoine Hartley

[113] Hartland, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 155-157.

[114] This custom prevails, for instance, among the Kharwârs and Parahiya tribes, and is common among the Ghasiyas, and is also practised among the Tipperah of Bengal.

[115] Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia. See also Barton, Semitic Origins.

[116] Academy, March 27, 1886.

[117] Spencer, Descriptive Sociology, Vol. V, p. 8, citing Petherick, Egypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa, pp. 140-141.

[118] Thomas, Sex and Society, pp. 73-74, quoting Waitz-Gerland.

[119] McLennan, The Patriarchal Theory, p. 235.

[120] Marsden, History of Sumatra, pp. 225-227.

[121] Forbes, Eleven Years in Ceylon, Vol. I, p. 333.

[122] Macdonald, Africana, Vol I, p. 136.