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Excerpt: Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Frame of Reference
1. The Inquiry
2. The Material
3. Definition of Cultural Condition
4. Criticism of Categories based on ‘Beliefs’
5. Some Unacceptable Translations
6. By Their Rites We Shall Know Them
7. Zoistic; Manistic; Deistic
8. ‘Ancestor-worship’: an Analysis
9. The Treatment of Affliction
10. The Control of the Weather
11. The Frame of Cultural Reference (Uncivilized Peoples)
12. The Meaning of ‘Primitive’ and ‘Civilized’
13. The Meaning of ‘Higher’ and ‘Lower’
14. Definition of Marriage
15. Comments on the Evidence
16. Definition of Sexual Opportunity
17. Exogamy and Prohibited Degrees
18. Definition of Pre-nuptial Chastity
19. Irregular or Occasional Continence
20. Sexual Rights of a Clan-brother
21. Sexual Rights over a Wife’s ‘Sisters’
22. The Fate of the Widow
23. The Completed Frame of Reference (Uncivilized Peoples)
24. The Method
Chapter 2. Selected Evidence
25. The Plan of the Chapter
A. Selected Evidence from Melanesia
26. Pre-nuptial Regulations of the Loyalty Islanders and Tannese
27. Pre-nuptial Regulations of the New Britons
28. Pre-nuptial Regulations of the SE. Solomon Islanders (Ulawa and Sa’a)
29. Pre-nuptial Regulations of the Fijians
30. Cultural Condition of the Loyalty Islanders
31. Cultural Condition of the Tannese
32. Cultural Condition of the New Britons
33. Cultural Condition of SE. Solomon Islanders (Ulawa and Sa’a)
34. Cultural Condition of the Fijians
35. Summary and Chart
B. Selected Evidence from Africa and America
36. Sexual Regulations of the Banyankole, Bakitara, and Baganda
37. Cultural Condition of the Banyankole
38. Cultural Condition of the Bakitara
39. Cultural Condition of the Baganda
40. Summary and Chart
41. Pre-nuptial Regulations of the Yoruba and the Ibibio
42. Cultural Condition of the Ibibio and Yoruba
43. Pre-nuptial Regulations and Cultural Condition of the Aztecs
44. Summary and Chart
C. Selected Evidence from Polynesia
45. Pre-nuptial Regulations of the Maori
46. Pre-nuptial Regulations of the Samoans
47. Pre-nuptial Regulations of the Tongans
48. The Revolution in Hawaii
49. Cultural Condition of the Maori
50. Cultural Condition of the Samoans
51. Cultural Condition of the Tongans
52. Summary and Chart
D. The Naga Tribes of Assam and the Paleo-Siberians
53. Pre-nuptial Regulations of the Naga Tribes of Assam
54. Cultural Condition of the Naga Tribes of Assam
55. Pre-nuptial Regulations of the Palaeo-Siberians
56. Cultural Condition of the Palaeo-Siberians
57. Chart of Selected Evidence
Chapter 3. General Survey
A. Preliminary Considerations
58. The Plan of the Chapter
59. Societies which were both matrilineal and matrilocal
60. The Area of Profound Mystery
61. Comments on Uncivilized Culture
62. ‘Animism’ again
63. The Power
64. The Place
65. The Agency
66. Dead Level of Conception
67. Confusion between the One and the Many
68. Temporary Distinction between the One and the Many
69. Permanent Distinction between the One and the Many
70. Native Brains
71. Summary of the Foregoing
B. Melanesia and New Guinea
72. Banks Islanders
73. Trobriand Islanders
74. Kiwai Papuans
75. Mafulu
76. Purari
77. Koita
78. Mailu
79. Orakaiva
80. Summary and Chart
C. Eastern Africa
81. Comments on the African Evidence
82. Shilluk
83. Dinka
84. Lango
85. Akikuyu
86. Akamba
87. Nandi
88. Masai
89. Summary and Chart
90. Preliminary Evaluation of the Foregoing Evidence
D. The Area of Profound Mystery
91. Awemba
92. Baila
93. Baronga
94. Amazulu
95. Basuto
96. Summary and Chart
E. African Matrilineal Societies
97. Wayao and Anyanja — Pre-nuptial Sexual Regulations
98. Wayao and Anyanja — Cultural Condition
99. Dahomans
100. Ashanti
101. Summary and Chart
F. American Indians
102. Comments on the Evidence from North America
(1) Indians of the North-west
103. Tlingit
104. Haida
105. Thompson
106. Shuswap
107. Lillooet
108. Coast Salish
109. Klallam
110. Nez Percés
111. Dene
112. Summary and Chart
(2) Indians of the Plains and Great Lakes
113. Ojibwa
114. Blackfeet
115. Arapaho
116. Iroquois
117. Dakota
118. Omaha
119. Hidatsa, Mandan, Crow
120. Winnebago
121. Summary and Chart
(3) Indians of the South and South-east
122. Comments on Pueblo Culture
123. Hopi
124. Zuni
125. Sia
126. Navaho and Apache
127. Chickasaw
128. Creek
129. Natchez
130. Pima
131. Summary and Chart
G. Miscellaneous Societies
132. Comments on the Remaining Evidence
133. Tahitians
134. Gilbert Islanders
135. Mikirs
136. Garos
137. Khasis
138. Andaman Islanders
139. Sea-Dyaks
140. Summary and Chart
Chapter 4. The Connexion Between Sexual Opportunity and Cultural Behavior
A. Analysis of the Cultural Evidence
141. Analysis of the Chart of Evidence (Appendix I)
142. The Cultural Scale
143. The Scale of the Limitation of Sexual Opportunity
144. Method of Classifying the Evidence in regard to Uncivilized Ideas
145. Classification of the Evidence in regard to the Ideas of the Eighty Uncivilized Societies
146. The ‘Unusual’ as the Power
147. The ‘Unusual’ as the Agency
148. Misconceptions and Misinterpretations
149. The ‘Unusual’ as ‘the Dead’
150. The ‘Unusual’ as the Recipient
151. The ‘Unusual’ as the Place
152. Summary of the Foregoing
B. Submissions of the Psychologists
153. Origin of Psycho-analysis
154. Social Nature of the Unconscious
155. Effect of Sexual Limitations
156. The Cause of Social Energy
157. Application of these conclusions to the Cultural Data
158. Digest of the Foregoing Chapters
Chapter 5. Necessity in Human Affairs
159. The Relativity of Human Affairs
160. The Science of Human Affairs
161. Seven Classes of Sexual Regulations
162. Cultural Effect of Pre-nuptial Sexual Freedom
163. Cultural Effect of a Compulsory Irregular or Occasional Continence
164. Cultural Effect of Compulsory Pre-nuptial Chastity
165. A Method of Confirming these Suggestions
166. Degeneracy among Uncivilized Peoples
167. Cultural Effect of different Post-nuptial Regulations; Christian Marriage
168. The Institution of Absolute Monogamy
169. Post-nuptial Regulations of the Babylonians (to twentieth century B.C.) and Sumerians
170. Post-nuptial Regulations of the Athenians
171. Post-nuptial Regulations of the Romans (to first century A.D.)
172. Post-nuptial Regulations of the Anglo-Saxons
173. Post-nuptial Regulations of the English (from sixteenth to twentieth century)
174. Human Entropy
175. Conclusion