Introductory
Social Organisation. Associations in the lower stages of culture. Consanguinity and Kinship. The Tribe. Kinship groups: totem kins; phratries Pages 1-11
DESCENT.
Descent of Kinship, origin and primitive form. Matriliny in Australia. Relation to potestas, position of widow, etc. Change of rule of descent; relation to potestas, inheritance and local organisation 12-28
DEFINITIONS AND HISTORY.
Definitions: tribe, sub-tribe, local group, phratry, class, totem kin. “Blood” and “shade.” Kamilaroi type. History of Research in Australia. General sketch 29-40
TABLES OF CLASSES, PHRATRIES, ETC.
| Tables I, I a. Class Names | 42, 47 |
| Table II. Phratry Names | 48 |
| Table III. Comparison of “blood” and phratry names | 50 |
| Table IV. Relations of Class and phratry organisations | 51 |
PHRATRY NAMES.
The Phratriac Areas. Borrowing of Names. Their Meanings. Antiquity of Phratry Names. Eaglehawk Myths. Racial Conflicts. Intercommunication. Tribal Migrations 52-62
ORIGIN OF PHRATRIES.
Mr Lang’s theory and its basis. Borrowing of phratry names. Split groups. The Victorian area. Totems and phratry names. Reformation theory of phratriac origin 63-70
CLASS NAMES.
Classes later than Phratries. Anomalous Phratry Areas. Four-class Systems. Borrowing of Names. Eight-class System. Resemblances and Differences of Names. Place of Origin. Formative Elements of the Names: Suffixes, Prefixes. Meanings of the Class Names 71-85
THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF CLASSES.
Effect of classes. Dr Durkheim’s Theory of Origin. Origin in grouping of totems. Dr Durkheim on origin of eight classes. Herr Cunow’s theory of classes 86-92
KINSHIP TERMS.
Descriptive and classificatory systems. Kinship terms of Wathi-Wathi, Ngerikudi-speaking people and Arunta. Essential features. Urabunna. Dieri. Distinction of elder and younger 93-101
TYPES OF SEXUAL UNIONS.
Terminology of Sociology. Marriage. Classification of Types. Hypothetical and existing forms 102-109
GROUP MARRIAGE AND MORGAN’S THEORIES.
Passage from Promiscuity. Reformatory Movements. Incest. Relative harmfulness of such unions. Natural aversion. Australian facts 110-118
GROUP MARRIAGE AND THE TERMS OF RELATIONSHIP.
Mother and Child. Kurnai terms. Dieri evidence. Noa. Group Mothers. Classification and descriptive terms. Poverty of language. Terms express status. The savage view natural 119-126
PIRRAURU.
Theories of group marriage. Meaning of group. Dieri customs. Tippa-malku marriage. Obscure points. Pirrauru. Obscure points. Relation of pirrauru to tippa-malku unions. Kurnandaburi. Wakelbura customs. Kurnai organisation. Position of widow. Piraungaru of Urabunna. Pirrauru and group marriage. Pirrauru not a survival. Result of scarcity of women. Duties of Pirrauru spouses. Piraungaru; obscure points 127-141
TEMPORARY UNIONS.
Wife lending. Initiation ceremonies. Jus primae noctis. Punishment for adultery. Ariltha of central tribes. Group marriage unproven 142-149
ANOMALOUS MARRIAGES.
Decay of class rules in South-East. Descent in Central Tribes. “Bloods” and “Castes” 150-152
| Index of Phratry, Blood, and Class Names | 153-157 |
| Index of Subjects | 158-163 |
Maps.
| PAGE | |||
| I. | Rule of Descent | 40 | |
| II. | Class Organisations | to follow | 40 |
| III. | Phratry Organisations | ″ | 40 |
TABLE.
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