The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes, Planned as a Text-book for the Use of College Lecturers and of Directors of Home-reading Clubs |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adopted adultery Aït ancestor-worship ANCIENT belong betrothed birth born boys bride bride-price brother ceremonial chap chastity child civilisation concubinage concubine conjugal consent considered Couvade custom Dargun daughter death deceased developed divorce dowry economic elder Erathipa ESKIMO exogamy facts father father's house female filial fœticide forms frequently girl give given groom household infant infanticide inheritance KABYLES killed kinsfolk kinship lactation LECTURE less live London male marital marriage marriage by capture marriage by purchase marry matronymy monogamy mother NOTE offspring organisation parenthood parents paternal patriarchal person phratry POINT BARROW polyandry polygyny practice pregnancy primitive prostitution puberty punished reals relations relatives riage separate sexual abstinence sexual choice sexual intercourse sisters slave social sometimes sons species student suckling THOMPSON RIVER tion totem totem clan tribe unto VEDDAHS village widow wife's wives woman women xxvii YAHGAN young
Popular passages
Page 76 - This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice ; he is a glutton, and a drunkard." And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you ; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Page 76 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Page 262 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
Page 262 - And if the man like not to take •his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Page 76 - And the king said unto her, What aileth thee ? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.
Page 184 - Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou ; and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: neither shalt thou make marriages with them ; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Page 155 - If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed : to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
Page 155 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her : then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 212 - ... and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
Page 76 - And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.