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Fison and Howitt, loc. cit., p. 288, quoting Rev. John Bulmer on the Wa-imbio tribe.
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Spencer and Gillen, loc. cit., p. 554.
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Loc. cit., Vol. I, p. 108. At the same time, Curr thinks that capture was formerly more frequent.
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Misapprehension as to the prevalence of marriage by capture is due in the main to two causes: (1) cases of elopement have been classed as cases of capture; (2) the so-called survivals of marriage by capture in historical times, of which so much has been made, are merely systematized expressions of the coyness of the female, differing in no essential point from the coyness of the female among birds at the pairing season.
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Curr, loc. cit., Vol. I, p. 107.
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Loc. cit., p. 181.
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Haddon, "Ethnography of the Western Tribes of Torres Straits," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. XIX, p. 414.
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Ibid., p. 356.
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Loc. cit., p. 285.
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Cf. "The Gaming Instinct," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. VI, pp. 736ff., et passim.