 Nuthie, of the latter, in whose hands the matter lies, will give one man a preferential right, but at the same time they will give other men of the same group a secondary right to her. Individual marriage does not exist, either in name or in practice,...  The Secret of the Totem, by Andrew Lang - Page 38by Andrew Lang - 1905 - 215 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Theophilus Finck - Love - 1899 - 888 pages
...access to her. . . . There is no such tiling as one man having the exclusive right to one woman. . . . Individual marriage does not exist either in name or in practice in the Urabunna tribe." "Occasionally, but rarely, it happens that a man attempts to prevent his wife's Piraungaru from having... | |
 | Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen - Aboriginal Australians - 1899 - 730 pages
...preferential right, but at the same time they will give other men of the same group a secondary right to her. Individual marriage does not exist either in name or in practice in the Urabunna tribe. . The initiation in regard to establishing the relationship of Piraungaru between a man and a woman... | |
 | Alfred Ernest Crawley - Anthropology - 1902 - 538 pages
...preferential right, but at the same time they will give other men of the same group a secondary right to her. Individual marriage does not exist, either in name or in practice, in the Urabunna tribe. The initiation (sic") in regard to establishing the relationship of Piraungaru between a man and a... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - Electronic journals - 1907 - 902 pages
...Messrs. Howitt and Fison have called, in regard to Australian tribes, 'group marriage.' " They add that "individual marriage does not exist either in name or in practice in the Urabunna tribe," and the investigations of this type by Messrs. Fison, Howitt, and Gason tend to corroborate their statement.... | |
 | Henry Thomas Burgess - Arno Bay (S. Aust.) - 1907 - 654 pages
...of his mother's elder brothers, blood or tribal. While the term marriage is used it is pointed out that "individual marriage does not exist, either in name or in practice, among the Urabunna tribe." There is a group of men, all of whom belong to the one moiety of the tribe,... | |
 | William Isaac Thomas - Social history - 1909 - 956 pages
...preferential right, but at the same time they will give other men of the same group a secondary right to her. Individual marriage does not exist either in name or in practice in the Urabunna tribe. The initiation in regard to establishing the relationship of Piraungaru between a man and a woman must... | |
 | Robert Briffault - Anthropology - 1927 - 808 pages
...preferential right, but at the same time he will give other men of the same group a secondary right to her. Individual marriage does not exist either in name or in practice in the Urabunna tribe." 4 The latter statement, offered as a challenge to critics, alludes to the ambiguity with which the... | |
 | Northcote Whitridge Thomas - Social Science - 1966 - 194 pages
...clear, far too few data to be able to estimate the value of the dictum of Messrs Spencer and Gillen that " individual marriage does not exist either in name or in practice in the Urabunna tribe." If their views are based only on the facts they have given us, they have clearly overlooked a number... | |
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