... McLennan's theory of marriage by capture, therefore, requires either — 1. That all the women of a tribe shall be captured by another tribe ; or — 2. That men shall be captured for husbands, as well as women for wives. Surely, when a ...
... McLennan commences, there were any established rules of marriage. Unions of the sexes must have preceded all social laws. The rise of a social law implies a certain preceding continuity of social existence ; and this preceding ...
... McLennan postulates, as we have seen, that the scarcity of women " led at once to polyandry within the tribe, and the capturing of women from without." Describing and illustrating the different forms of polyandry, ending in that highest ...
derived from the adjacent Mt Richmond vents, rather than from the vents of McLennan Hills, for the scoria cones of the latter centre are themselves thinly mantled with a similar deposit. Little now remains of the scoria cones of the ...
... McLennan Album BY CRAIG ROSEN Mclennan LOS ANGELES— Through the '80s, Grant McLennan was a member of the critically acclaimed but commercially underappreciated Australian combo the Go-Be- tweens. His first two solo efforts, issued on ...
... MCLENNAN. In Your Bright Ray — Beggars Banquet □ "Another centuiy slithers in/Blood on its breath with an innocent grin/Put a quill in your writing hand/Fill it with ink then you'll understand," sings Grant McLennan on "Down Here ...
... McLennan to consider how great his theory of polyandry as a system of marriage requires that disparity to be. Tinder such a system it is evident that, whatever the average number of husbands to a wife may be, at least so many times more ...
... McLennan. It does not, however, like his, assume either that this usage originated in a primordial instinct, or that it resulted from scarcity of women caused by infanticide. Moreover, unlike Mr. McLennan's, the explanation so reached ...
... MCLENNAN. Edited and completed by DONALD MCLENNAN. London : Macmillan & Co. Pp. 355. Price, $4. MR. MCLENNAN, in his book on " Primitive Marriage," and in an essay which he published about fifteen years ago, on " The Worship of Animals ...
... McLennan's theory depends is not to be readily granted. We have now to examine the second, which is — That exogamous tribes existed " under circumstances in which men could get wives only by capturing them." A tribe to satisfy these ...