The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE SERIES.

EDITED BY HAVELOCK ELLIS.

EVOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

THE EVOLUTION

OF MARRIAGE

AND OF THE FAMILY

BY

CH. LETOURNEAU,

General Secretary to the Anthropological Society of Paris, and Professor in the School of Anthropology.

LONDON WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE PATERNOSTER ROW 1891.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE✦

THE BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE 1-19

I. The True Place of Man in the Animal Kingdom. II. Reproduction. III. Rut and Love. IV. Love of Animals.

CHAPTER II.✦

MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY AMONGST ANIMALS 20-36

I. The Preservation of Species. II. Marriage and the Rearing of the Young among Animals. III. The Family amongst Animals.

CHAPTER III.✦

PROMISCUITY 37-55

I. Has there been a Stage of Promiscuity? II. Cases of Human Promiscuity. III. Hetaïrism.

CHAPTER IV.✦

SOME SINGULAR FORMS OF SEXUAL ASSOCIATION 56-72

I. Primitive Sexual Immorality. II. Some Strange Forms of Marriage.

CHAPTER V.✦

POLYANDRY 73-88

I. Sexual Proportion of Births: its Influence on Marriage. II. Ethnography of Polyandry. III. Polyandry in Ancient Arabia. IV. Polyandry in General.

CHAPTER VI.✦

MARRIAGE BY CAPTURE 89-104

I. Rape. II. Marriage by Capture. III. Signification of the Ceremonial of Capture.

CHAPTER VII.✦

MARRIAGE BY PURCHASE AND BY SERVITUDE 105-121

I. The Power of Parents. II. Marriage by Servitude. III. Marriage by Purchase.