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.
THE DECAY OF MARRIAGE BY PURCHASE. THE MARRIAGE PORTION
The decay of marriage by purchase among civilized peoples, pp. [403]-405.—Marriage by purchase transformed into a symbol, pp. [405], et seq.—Arbitrary presents and sham sale, p. [405].—Return gift, pp. [405], et seq.—The purchase-sum transformed into the morning gift and the dotal portion, pp. [406]-408.—The decay of marriage by purchase among uncivilized races, pp. [408]-410.—The marriage portion does not in every case spring from a previous purchase, p. [411].—It serves different ends, ibid.—The marriage portion as a settlement for the wife, pp. [411]-414.—The marriage portion among uncivilized races, pp. [414], et seq.—Fathers bound by law or custom to portion their daughters, pp. [415], et seq.—Husband purchase, p. [416].
MARRIAGE CEREMONIES AND RITES
Peoples who have no marriage ceremony, pp. [417], et seq.—The rise of marriage ceremonies, pp. [418]-421.—When the mode of contracting a marriage altered, the earlier mode, from having been a reality, survived as a ceremony, p. [418].—Wedding feasts, pp. [418], et seq.—Ceremonies symbolizing the relation between husband and wile, pp. [419]-421.—Religious ceremonies connected with marriage among uncivilized nations, pp. [421]-424.—Assistance of a priest, pp. [422], et seq.—Omens and ‘lucky days,’ pp. [423], et seq.—Religious marriage ceremonies among civilized nations, pp. [424]-428.—Civil marriage, pp. [428], et seq.—The validity of marriage, pp. [429], et seq.