INDEX

• A
• Absorption by the male of female ideas, 75
• Advance of the family to the clan and tribe, 36, 67-91, 170, 256 et seq.
• Africa, 174-176, 204-205
• Agriculture and women, 60 et seq., 116, 158, 194-208
• Ahitas of Philippines, 152
• Alladians of Gold Coast, 185
• Allison, Mrs., 198
• Amazons, 34, 36, 38, 228, 245-246
• Amazons, revolt of, 31, 32, 36, 38
• Ambel-anak marriage, 147, 182
• American aborigines, 27, 95-131, 148, 198, 206
• Andamanese, women’s work among, 197
• Andombies, women’s work among, 201
• Apes, anthropoid, 72, 80, 81
• Arabia, 178, 206
• Arabs, 179-180, 189
• Architects, women as primitive, 117, 203
• Arruwimi tribe, 201
• Aryans, mother-descent among, 230 et seq.
• Athens, 216, 220
• Atkinson, Mr., 24, 47, 51, 52, 56, 69, 71, 72, 73, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86
• Australia, 102, 167-170, 178
• Australia, work of women in, 197, 200, 210
• B
• Babylon, position of women in ancient, 214-215
• Bacchanalian festivals, 38, 241, 243
• Bachofen, 26 et seq., 40, 97, 154, 165, 216, 240, 245
• Bachofen’s theory of matriarchy, 26-44
• Bancroft, 116, 119, 124, 125, 184
• Bandelier, 207
• Banyai tribe, 183
• Barton, 178
• Basques, 229
• Batu tribe, 175
• Bavili tribe, 185
• Beena marriage, 178, 182, 183, 223, 248
• Benefits of marriage law for women, 32
• Beni-Amer of Africa, 211
• Berbers, 222-227
• Bonwick, 195
• Brewers, women as, 203
• Bride-price, 159, 184, 190, 260, 263
• Brute-force of male, 44.
• See Father as tyrant.
• Buckley, 197, 198
• C
• Californian Redskins, 124
• Campbell, 183
• Capture of wives, 51, 64, 74, 80, 83, 169, 181
• Celts, 233, 234
• Ceylon, 173, 182
• Charleroix, 114
• Chavanne, 160, 161
• Chivalry, 162
• Choice in love, the right of the female, 64, 113, 151-153, 177, 260
• Clan, primitive, 18, 103, 166, 167, 176, 190, 209, 257 et seq.
• Communal living, 75, 88, 103 et seq., 116, 117 et seq., 148 et seq., 154, 166, 174, 231, 256 et seq.
• Contrast between the work of women and men, 195 et seq.
• Conventional morality, 36
• Courtship, 45, 120 et seq., 151-153.
• See Choice in love.
• Couvade, 206, 228
• Crawley, 47, 77, 82, 95, 96, 209
• Creek Indians, 118-119
• Crete, matriarchy in ancient, 216, 217-218, 220
• Criticism of mother-right, 19, 21, 23, 24, 27, 35, 40, 42, 48, 95-96, 170, 192, 210, 253
• Curr, 128
• Cushing, 117, 237
• D
• D’Allosso, Prof., 246
• Dalton, 133, 152
• Dances, 100
• Dargun, 230, 231
• Darwin, 45
• Deega marriage, 182
• De Mailla, 150
• Deniker, 198
• Dennett, 185
• Dependence of the human child, 58
• Descent through the mother, 17, 26, 33, 88, 119, 160, 162 et seq., 163-165, 213-214, 220 et seq., 224, 227, 230, 232-233, 249 et seq., 257, 258 et seq.
• Diodorus, 211, 212
• Divinities, women as, 136 et seq., 154, 214, 217, 219, 229, 231, 240
• Divorce, 113, 121, 141-143, 157, 179, 206, 260
• Djudur marriage, 182, 259
• Doctors, women as, 203
• Domestication of animals, 203
• Duveyrier, 160, 161, 162
• E
• Economic matriarchy, 159 et seq.
• Egypt, position of women in ancient, 162, 211-214, 227
• Ellis, Havelock, 153, 192, 199, 201, 203, 205, 215
• Euripedes, 239
• Exogamy, 76-77, 87, 119, 123, 135, 141, 154
• Expansion of the family into the clan, 67 et seq., 79 et seq., 86-87, 97, 256 et seq.
• F
• Fairy stories, their evidence for mother-right, 246-252
• Family, primitive, 41, 48 et seq., 54-55, 68 et seq., 168-169, 256 et seq.
• Fanti of Gold Coast, 175
• Father as tyrant, 34, 44, 48, 50, 54, 57, 63, 68, 70, 72, 74, 81, 83, 168, 255
• Father the true parent, 38, 39, 239
• Father-right dependent on purchase, 182 et seq., 185-186, 188, 190, 262-263
• Female dominance, 35, 111, 133, 156, 159.
• See Gynæcocracy.
• Ferrass, Max Henry, 80
• Fison, 193, 200, 206
• Folk-lore as evidence of mother-right, 233, 234, 236 et seq., 249, 251
• Food and women, 59 et seq.
• See Industry and women.
• Forbes, 183
• Formosans, 150-151
• Frazer, 133, 179, 187, 215, 220, 233
• Fuegians, 203
• G
• Garos, 151-152
• Germans, mother-descent among, 230-231
• Giraud-Teulon, 28, 176, 216
• Greece, ancient, traces of mother-right in, 216-222
• Grimm, 231
• Grote, 216
• Guinea, 181
• Gurdon, P. R., 132, 135, 137, 139, 140, 143
• Gynæcocracy, 27, 30, 34, 38, 97, 112, 133, 156, 159-162, 176
• H
• Haddon, 153, 196
• Haidis, 187
• Hale, Horatio, 205
• Hall, J. R., 217, 218
• Hammurabi, Code of, 214
• Hartland, 114, 123, 125, 172, 177, 186
• Hassanyah Arabs, 179-180
• Haydes, 198
• Hearne, 178
• Hebrew patriarchs, 13, 222 et seq.
• Heriot, 110, 113, 120
• Herodotus, 211, 217, 221
• Herrera, 117
• Hodgson, 159, 177
• Hoffman, 208
• Home, woman’s connection with the, 34-35, 36, 59, 84, 150, 193 et seq., 263
• Homer, 219
• Hooker, Sir J., 133
• Hopis, 122-123
• Hospitality, American-Indian, 108, 230
• Howitt, 193, 200
• Husband as “consort guest,” 15.
• See Maternal marriage.
• Husband visiting the wife by night, 81, 83, 140-141, 220, 258
• I
• Iberians, mother-right among, 226-227
• Ibn Batua, 178
• Illegitimacy, 122, 184, 185, 189
• Im Thurn, 196, 200
• Importance of mother-descent, 17, 20, 21, 27, 32-33, 88-89, 99, 100, 119, 121, 133, 139, 143, 149 et seq., 153, 155, 156, 166, 170, 173, 175, 258-259, 261
• Incest, paternal, 79, 176-178
• India, 102.
• See Khasis.
• Indians of Guiana, 195, 200
• Industry and women, 60-62, 102, 116, 117, 134, 135, 150, 175, 192-208
• J
• Jealousy, 45 et seq., 51-53, 54, 60, 62, 65, 67, 68, 73, 86, 90, 104, 157, 170, 191, 253
• Johnstone, H. H., 201
• Joint tenement houses, 106, 117, 148-149, 230
• Joyce.
• See Torday.
• Justin, 228
• K
• Kaffirs, 203
• Kamilaroi and Kurnai tribes, 193, 201
• Kamtschatdals, 203
• Khasis, 132-146, 177, 218
• Kingsley, Miss, 175
• Kinship through women.
• See Descent through mother.
• Koochs, 176-177
• Kubary, 155-156
• Kurds, 204
• L
• Laing, 176
• Lang, Andrew, 24, 47, 51, 56, 95
• Legends, 33, 101, 137, 217, 219, 232, 236-240, 243-246
• Letourneau, 162, 172, 176, 215, 233, 239
• Liburni tribes, 188, 231
• Limboltz, 152
• Limboo tribe, 183
• Lippert, 176
• Livingstone, 183
• Logan, J. R., 133
• Lyell, Sir Chas., 132, 137
• M
• Macdonald, 183, 200
• McGee, 16, 27, 117, 126, 133, 149, 152, 201
• McLennan, 26, 27, 33, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 52, 76, 105, 155, 181, 183, 185, 187, 220, 229, 244, 245
• McLennan, theory of mother-right, 40 et seq.
• Madagascar, 189, 226
• Maine, Sir H., 18, 223
• Malay States, 147 et seq.
• Malwlo tribe, 185
• Mang’anja tribe, 188
• Manyuema tribe, 201
• Maoris, 186
• Marsden, 182
• Marvana Islanders, 180
• Mason, O., 197, 200, 202
• Maternal love, 69, 70 et seq., 263
• Maternal marriage, 15, 17, 41, 85, 86, 87, 100, 112 et seq., 114, 119, 123, 127, 147, 149, 158, 166, 176, 177, 183, 223, 232, 233, 247 et seq., 258
• Matriarchal theory, mistakes in, 15, 16, 19, 39 et seq., 90-91, 97, 98.
• See Criticism of mother-right.
• Matriarchate. See Gynæcocracy.
• Meave, Queen of Ireland, 252
• Menomini Indians, 207
• Monogamy, 119, 122, 123, 125, 149, 259
• Monopolist desire of male, 186-187.
• See Unsocial conduct of males.
• Moore, 152
• Moral prohibition, primitive, 119.
• See Taboos.
• Morgan, 27, 40, 103, 104, 105, 109, 111, 117, 118
• Müller, 216
• Musical faculty of women, 161
• N
• Naïrs of Malabar, 171-174
• Newbold, 243
• New Caledonia, women’s work in, 197
• New Guinea, 152-153
• New theory of mother-right, 35, 43-44, 48 et seq., 72, 90-91, 96, 97, 170, 212, 254, 257
• Nicaraguans, 125
• O
• Origin of the human family, 21, 24, 25, 41-42, 50 et seq., 77, 90, 255 et seq.
• Origin of the maternal system, 16, 41, 43, 88-89, 166, 257 et seq.
• Owen, 115, 197
• Ownership of children, 115, 141, 183 et seq., 187
• P
• Pakpatan, 189
• Pani Kotches, 158-159
• Papuans of New Guinea, 201
• Paraguay, 152
• Parenthood, 37, 268-269
• Parke, 201
• Passivity of female in love, 153
• Patriarchal authority of father, 19, 35, 48, 51, 63, 68, 72, 74, 81.
• See Father as tyrant.
• Patriarchal family, 35, 45, 91, 215, 222, 255 et seq.
• Patriarchal theory, 24, 26, 35, 45 et seq., 254
• Pearson, K., 231, 240, 241, 243, 248, 250, 251
• Pecuniary matriarchy, 159
• Pedangs of Sumatra, 148-150
• Pelew Islanders, 152-159, 207-208
• Petherick, 180
• Picts, mother-descent among, 232
• Pike, W., 198
• Plato, 239
• Plutarch, 216, 220
• Polyandry, 42, 51, 112, 125, 136, 173, 260
• Polygamous males, 49, 50, 52
• Polygamy, 112, 125, 157, 259
• Polynesians, 203
• Position of the father, 13, 15, 17, 21, 58 et seq., 141, 143, 149, 165, 170, 173, 191, 225, 238, 242, 257
• Position of the mother, 13, 15, 17, 21, 58 et seq., 111, 165, 176, 191, 225, 238, 257
• Position of women, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 106, 143, 152, 158, 192, 204, 238
• Powell, 114, 116
• Power, 202, 224
• Pre-matriarchal period, 35, 169, 255
• Present social and economic condition, 14, 267-269
• Prevalence of mother-descent, 17, 128-129, 209-210, 233
• Primal law, 24, 47, 52, 73, 74, 75, 77
• Promiscuity, 23, 25, 27, 31, 32, 40 et seq., 43, 45 et seq., 76, 97, 99, 168, 209-210, 255
• Property ownership, its importance for women, 43, 45 et seq., 77, 97, 99, 168, 209-210, 255
• Pueblos, 116 et seq., 200, 207
• Purchase marriage, 124, 177, 182, 233
• Puritan spirit, 36, 96, 255
• Q
• Quissama women, 203
• R
• Race, responsibility to, 37, 268-269
• Ratzel, 206
• Religions, position of women in primitive, 29, 37, 238, 241.
• See Divinities, women as.
• Religious festivals, 241, 242-243
• Religious myths, 29-30, 33, 236-238
• Revolt of women, 31, 34, 35, 44, 267
• Rhys and Brynmor-Jones, 233
• Riedel, 183
• Rome, ancient, traces of mother-right in, 215-216
• S
• Sai tribe, 123-124
• Salish tribe, 127
• Samoa, 187
• Santals, 177
• Schellong, 201
• School craft, 110, 112, 116
• Semper, 157
• Senecas. See Iroquois.
• Seri Indians, 126-128
• Service marriage, 147-150, 184, 222-223
• Sex antagonism, 36, 55, 264 et seq.
• Sexual egoism of male, 61, 67.
• See Unsocial conduct of males.
• Sexual freedom for women, 120, 127, 171, 173, 178, 179-180, 260
• Sexual subjection of female, 53, 63, 68, 189, 191, 265-266
• Similarity of sexes, 129-131, 218
• Similkameen Indians, 198
• Slavs, the clan among the, 231
• Social conduct of women, 31, 34, 55 et seq., 59-65, 68, 70, 72, 75, 81, 90, 107, 193, 256 et seq.
• Social habits, primitive, 23, 49, 58 et seq., 67, 81, 107 et seq., 170.
• See Maternal marriage.
• Soulima women, 176
• Spain, position of women in, 227-230
• Sparta, 220, 222
• Spencer, H., 180
• Spiritual quality in women, 31, 56, 68
• Stages in the development of the family, 17, 23, 97, 168, 174, 194, 254 et seq.
• T
• Taboos, primitive sexual, 73, 77-78, 107, 168, 170, 257
• Tacitus, 230
• Tarrahumari Indians, 152
• Tasmanian women, 195
• Thebans, 220
• Thibet, 173
• Thomas, C., 129
• Thomas, I. T., 181, 202
• Thomas, N. W., 95
• Torday and Joice, 184
• Torres Straits, women’s work in, 196
• Totem names, 77, 87, 119, 168, 257
• Touaregs of the Saraha, 159-162, 227
• Transition period, 12, 23, 151, 169, 184 et seq., 187, 235, 261
• Tribal ancestresses, 135, 155, 226, 231, 233, 234
• Turner, 188, 197
• Tylor, 25, 98, 104, 117, 152
• U
• Uncertainty of paternity, 27, 41, 42, 99, 141, 254
• Unsocial conduct of male, 55 et seq., 61-64, 68, 71, 72, 75, 90, 193, 256
• V
• Visiting wife in secret, 140-141, 147, 220, 222-223, 258
• Volti, 123
• W
• Wade, 189
• Waitz-Gerland, 181
• Wamoimia, 175
• War and women, 115-116, 197-198, 246
• Watubela tribe, 183
• Wayao tribe, 183
• Wells, Mr. H. G., 24, 52, 192
• Werner, Alice, 175, 204
• Westermarck, 18, 35, 42, 47, 76, 95, 99, 125, 152, 168, 209
• Wheeler, J. M., 152
• Wilkin, 188, 189
• Woman as food-giver, 60, 202 et seq.
• Woman’s movement, 11 et seq., 267-268
• Women, primitive, not ill-treated by men, 200 et seq.
• Women, spiritual superiority, 30
• Wright, Asher, Rev., 111
• Wyandots. See Iroquois.
• Y
• Yahgan of Tierra del Fuego, 198
• Yaos of Africa, 175
• Ymer, 157
• Yokia women of California, 202
• Z
• Zuñi Indians, 117-118, 120-122