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The History of Human Marriage. E-book. Formato PDF
Edward Westermarck
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
IT is in the firm conviction that the history of human civilization should be made an object of as scientific a treatment as the history of organic nature that I write this book. Like the phenomena of physical and psychical life, those of social life Should be classified into certain groups, and each group investigated...
The History of Human Marriage. E-book. Formato PDF
Edward Westermarck
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
During the thirty years which have passed since the publication of the first edition of the present work the study of marriage and matters connected with it, especially among the lower races, has made such progress that I have found it necessary to reconsider the whole subject. Many new facts have been incorporated,...
The History of Human Marriage. E-book. Formato PDF
Edward Westermarck
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
Group-marriage among peoples practising polyandry as a combination of polygyny with polyandry, pp. 223 — 226. — Group-marriage or more or less similar relations among the ancient inhabitants of the British Isles, pp. 226 — 228. — Group-relations among the Chukchee, pp. 228 — 2 32.
The History of Human Marriage. E-book. Formato PDF
Edward Westermarck
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
Alexander von Humboldt observed long ago Nations attach the idea of beauty to everything which particularly characterises their own physical conformation, their natural physiognomy. Thence 'it results that, if nature have bestowed very little beard, a narrow forehead, or a brownish red skin, every individual thinks...