Ancient Society; Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress From Savagery, Through Barbarism to Civilization
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Tylor, in his valuable work on the "Early His- tory of Mankind," which is a repository of widely-drawn and well-digested ethnological information, cites the same fact from another source, with the following re- marks : "The analogy of the North American Indian cus- tom is therefore with that of the Australian in making clanship on the female side a bar to marriage, but if we go down further south into Central America, the reverse custom, as in China, makes its appearance. Diego de Landa says of... the people of Yucatan, that no one took a wife of his name, on the father's side, for this was a very vile thing among them; but they might marry cOusins german on the mother's side." 1 XL South American Indian Tribes. Traces of the gens have been found in all parts of South America, as well as the actual presence of the Ganowanian system of consanguinity, but the subject has not been fully investigated. Speaking of the numer- ous tribes of the Andes brought by the Incas under a species of confederation, Herrera observes that "this va- riety of tongues proceeded from the nations being di- vided into races, tribes, or clans." 2 Here in the clans the existence of gentes is recognized.
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