The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

by Ch. Letourneau

[866] M. Elphinstone, Picture of the Kingdom of Cabul, vol. i. p. 168.

[867] Code of Manu, ix. 69.

[868] Code of Manu, ix. 70.

[869] Genesis, xxxviii. 8.

[870] Deuteronomy, xxv. 5, 6.

[871] Ibid. xxv. 7-10.

[872] A. d’Abbadie, Douze ans de séjour dans la haute Éthiopie, p. 273.

CHAPTER XVI.
THE FAMILIAL CLAN IN AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA.

I. The Family.

II. The Family in Melanesia.—Melanesian rape—First formation of societies—Exogamy—The Australian clans—Native marriage state—Marriage of clans among the Kamilaroi—Their social incest—How a clan originates—Fictitious fraternity and the totem—How individual marriage is made among the Kurnai—Maternal filiation—Agnation tends to be constituted—Evolution of the family in Melanesia.