Sex And Society Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex
The book Sex And Society Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex was written by author Thomas, William Isaac, 1863-1947 Here you can read free online of Sex And Society Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Sex And Society Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex a good or bad book?
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181. The Psychology of Exogamy 191 then all is settled. The fighting does not appear to be a very serious business.^ Similarly in Maibung: An exchange of presents and foods was made between the contracting parties, but the bridegroom's friends had to give the larger amount, and the bridegroom had to pay the parents for his wife, the usual price being a canoe or dugong harpoon, or shell armlet, or goods to equal value. The man might give his sister in exchange for a wife, and thus save the purch...ase price. A poor man who had no sister might perforce remain unmarried, unless an uncle took pity on him and gave him a cousin to exchange for a wife.^ Fison and Howitt^ give other examples of mar- riage by exchange, and I have already given a description of the custom of Tualcha mura, the regular method of obtaining a wife among the central Australians, by means of which a man secures a wife for his son by making an arrange- ment with some other man with regard to the latter's daughter. From the evidence given first of all I think we must conclude that early man was inclined to appropriate whatever women came in his way.
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