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Title:
The History of Human Marriage
Third Edition
Contents: Introduction -- The origin of marriage -- A human pairing season in primitive times -- The antiquity of human marriage -- A criticism of the hypothesis of promiscuity -- Marriage and celibacy -- The courtship of man -- Means of attraction -- The liberty of choice -- Sexual selection among animals -- The sexual selection of man: typical beauty -- The law of similarity -- Prohibition of marriage between kindred -- Sexual selection as influenced by affection and sympathy, and by calculation -- Marriage by capture and marriage by purchase -- The decay of marriage by purchase; the marriage portion -- Marriage ceremonies and rites -- The forms of human marriage -- The duration of human marriage -- Summary.
Credits: E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http: //www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by HathiTrust Digital Library (https: //www.hathitrust.org/)
Author: Westermarck, Edward, 1862-1939
Author of introduction, etc.: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
EBook No.: 59386
Published: Apr 28, 2019
Downloads: 88
Language: English
Subject: Marriage -- History
LoCC: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title:
The History of Human Marriage
Third Edition
Contents: Introduction -- The origin of marriage -- A human pairing season in primitive times -- The antiquity of human marriage -- A criticism of the hypothesis of promiscuity -- Marriage and celibacy -- The courtship of man -- Means of attraction -- The liberty of choice -- Sexual selection among animals -- The sexual selection of man: typical beauty -- The law of similarity -- Prohibition of marriage between kindred -- Sexual selection as influenced by affection and sympathy, and by calculation -- Marriage by capture and marriage by purchase -- The decay of marriage by purchase; the marriage portion -- Marriage ceremonies and rites -- The forms of human marriage -- The duration of human marriage -- Summary.
Credits: E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http: //www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by HathiTrust Digital Library (https: //www.hathitrust.org/)
Author: Westermarck, Edward, 1862-1939
Author of introduction, etc.: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
EBook No.: 59386
Published: Apr 28, 2019
Downloads: 88
Language: English
Subject: Marriage -- History
LoCC: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.