The Position of Woman in Primitive Society a Study of the Matriarchy
The Position of Woman in Primitive Society a Study of the Matriarchy
C Gasquoine Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
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" The Garos will not hastily make engagements, because, when they do make them, they intend to keep them. " i In Paraguay, we are told, the women are generally endowed with stronger passions than the men, and are allowed to make the proposals. 2 So also among the Ahitas of the Philippine Islands, where, if her clan-parents will not consent to a love match the girl seizes the young man by the hair, carries him off, and declares she has run away with him. In such a case it appears the marriage is... held to be valid whether the parents consent or not. 3 A similar custom of a gentler character, is practised by the Tarrahumari Indians of Northern Mexico, among whom, according to Lumboltz, the maiden is a persistent wooer employing a repertoire of really exquisite love songs to soften the heart of a reluctant swain. 4 Again, in New Guinea, where the women held a very independent position, " the girl is always regarded as the seducer. Women 1 Dalton, Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, pp. 64, 142.
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