Acquired characteristics, 7
Adolescence, its rites, 99-113
Adoption, 160, 180, 185, 193
Africa, government, 209-210,
200
Age groups, 100, 131, 189
Agricultural peoples and sexual
communism, 143
American history and the Iro-
quois, 205-207
Ancestor worship, 125–126
Animal and human society, 12-
14, 36-38, 212
Animal names, 186, 201
as totems, 110-112
Anthropoid apes and man, 64
no promiscuity among, 145
the family among, 127-128
Archæology, study of, 1-2, 19–
20, 122
Aristocracy, 195, 210
Associations, based on age and
sex, 189-190
see also Secret Society
Australian tribes, 89, 99, 100,
210-211
group marriage, 139-140
marriage classes, 160-162
puberty rites, 101-102, 105–
Burial rites, 118-126
by effigy, 121-122
Cannibalism, 232-233
Castes of India, 194
Charity, modern works of, 30-
32
Chiefs, polygyny among, 149
Polynesia, 200, 210
Iroquois, 203
see also Leadership
Child, introduction of, 93
education of, 98-99
Child-bearing, 91
Child and the savage, 230
China, name exogamy in, 159
Chukchee, 46
tale of fear of incest, 156-157
Church, rites of Christian, 91,
113, 126, 159-160, 219–220, 224
Churching of women, 91
Circumcision, 23
and puberty, 102-103
Civilization and progress, 28
and the savage, 2, 236-237
Clan, 158, 183-187
varieties of structure, 183-185
priority of clan and tribe, 184
Iroquois, 201-202
Classes, see Social Classes
Classificatory system of rela-
tionship terms, 140-144
Climate and environment, 47,
49-51
Collective responsibility, see
Joint liability
Composition in law, 219
Concentration and the savage,
59-60
Concubinage, 144
Confederacy, Iroquois, 189, 201-
207
Conservatism, 83-84
Contract theory of society, 35
Convergent evolution of cul-
ture, 18
Corn culture of the American
Indian, 21
Council, governing, 203, 210
Cousins, 152, 166-167
Couvade, 92-93, 22, 135
Crimes, 218-219
Criteria of progress, 28-33
Cross-cousin marriage, 166-167,
152, 163, 176
Cultural history of man, 4-5
Culture, a modern thing, 65-66
Dakota system of relationship
terms, 141
Data for social studies, 2
Death, ideas of and rites of,
113-126
explanation of, 115
Democracy, 193, 199, 205, 209-
212, 236
Descent, 168-174
Despotism, 215
in Polynesia, 200
Dewey, on the savage, 82-83,
87-88, 238-239
Diffusion of ideas, 18-28
Divergencies in cultures, causes
of, 40-52
Divination, 219
at birth, 94-95
of college students, 260
Divorce, 155
Dreams, reality of, 115-116
the other world, 124-125
Dual chieftanship, 200
Dual organization, see Moiety
and Phratry
Durkheim, on exogamy, 165
on mourning, 123-124
East, on miscegenation, 11
Economic basis of marriage,
127, 155, 177
Economics and environment, 47
Education, 98-99
Emotional life, 60-61
Endogamy, 157, 167
Environment, 42-52
and stature, 6-7
Eskimo, 46, 50, 95
polyandry among, 146-147
Ethical codes, 99
and environment, 45
Ethics, 230-239
Ethnocentrism, 188-189
Eugenics, 6
Evolution, physical, 3, 17
physical and cultural, 6-14
Evolutionary ideas on
family, 134-135
Exogamy, 157-166, 185, 187
Iroquois, 202
explanations of, 162-166
Family, 127-178
anterior to human society,
127-129
cohesion of group, 213
Fatherhood, determination of,
in polyandrous families, 147-
148
Fear of evil spirits, 86
and tabu, 234
Female infanticide, 150, 232
and polyandry, 147
Female prerogatives, Pueblo
peoples, 173-174
Iroquois, 168-169
Khasi, 169
of college students, 242-243
Flight of birds and of man, 9–
10
Folk-lore, study of survivals,
136-138
Folk-tales, diffusion of, 20-21
psychic unity seen in, 25-27
Greeks, customs of the, 112-
113, 148, 150, 184
birth, 94-95
descent, 170
tabu, 223
Group-marriage, 139-144, 135
and relationship terms, 143-
144
Group mind, 53-54
Group solidarity, 181, 235-236
Guardian spirit, 109-112
see also Totemism
Hamlet and the succession of
rule, 171
Hawaiian system of relation-
ship terms, 141-142
Head deformation, 97
Hebrews, marriage customs,
175-177
marriage by service, 152
levirate, 137
Heliolithic culture, 22-25
Herodotus, on kinship organ-
izations, 181
on speech, 7-9
Hesiod, on tabu, 230
Hooton, viii
Horde, the man, 38-39, 212
Horse in America, 21-22
Howard, on arguments against
promiscuity, 145
Howitt, on Australian puberty
rites, 104, 105-109
Human and animal society, 12-
14, 36-38, 212
Human soul, belief in, 114–117
Hunter, on intelligence tests,
.74-75
Hunting peoples, 87-88, 143
Hybrids, intelligence tests of,
74-75
see also Miscegenation
Illness and death, 117-118
Immigration, 31
Immigrants, changes in char-
acter of, 52
Inbreeding, 163-164, 145
Incas, government of, 207-209
Incest, 162-164, 237, 11-12
universal tabu against, 155–
160
supposedly evil effects of,
163-164
India, castes of, 194
Khasi, female prerogatives,
169
Indian-white mixtures, intelli-
gence of, 74-75
Individual, rôle of the, 39-40,
53-54, 212, 213
Industries and environment, 48
Inheritance, social, 168
see also Evolution, physical
and cultural,
Initiation rites, 100
see also Adolescence,
Instinct, 55-57
Intellect, 62-84
no increase in, 29-30
Intelligence tests, 68-76
Iroquois Confederacy, 201-207,
exogamy among, 159
female prerogatives, 168–169
totemism, 186
Jacob and his wives, 175-177
Joint liability, 217-218
Junior right, 172-173
Kabyle democracy, 209-210
Kellogg, on race mentality, 79
Khasi, female prerogatives, 169
Kingship, daughter's husband,
170-171
sisters son, 171
Kinship groups, 182-187, 180
Kirgis, parent-in-law tabu, 175
Kroeber, 47
on development of culture, 5
on intelligence tests, 69-72
Kwakiutl, see Northwest Coast
Lacandones of Guatemala, 59
family life of, 130-131
Language and environment, 48
Law, 216-220
absence of central authority,
217
Leadership, 212-216
never held by a woman, 168
see also Chiefs and Kingship
Levirate, 137-138
Marett, on lack of privacy, 237-
on study of survivals, 136
on tabu, 223
Mariner, on the Tongans, 232
Marquesans, 147
Marriage, 127-178
definition of, 132
and environment, 46-47
by capture, 150-151
contract, 149–155
by mutual consent, 154
by service, 176
rites, 154-155
classes in Australia, 160-162
Matriarchate, 134, 168-169
Matrilineal groups, authority
in, 213
descent, 168-172
Matrilocal residence, 173-174
Maya culture, 23, 24, 77
Melanesia, 109, 113-114, 139,
169
cross-cousin marriage in, 167
sociological fatherhood in,
secret society, 190
Men's house, 109, 130, 131, 190
Menstruation, horror of, 101
Mental processes of savage and
civilized man, 80-82
Mentality of races, see Intel-
lect
Migrations and environment,
48-49
Mink and the sun, tale of the,
25-26
Miscegenation, 10-12
see also Hybrids
Moities, 158
see also Phratry
Monarchial socialism of the
Incas, 209
Mongoloids and environment
43-44
diversity of culture, 66-67
Monogamy, 146, 149, 177
peoples practicing it, 135
tabu of pregnant
woman, 221-222
mother-in-law tabu, 174-175
rites of the, 58-59
Negro culture, 68, 79
intelligence tests, 69-73
Nordic hypothesis, 41-42, 63, 76
North American tribes, de-
scent, 170
government, 200
social classes, 194
totemism, 186
Northwest Coast of North
America
Occupations, 194
marriage as a purchase, 153
social classes, 194-197
potlatch system, 195-197
tale of the mink and the sun,
25-27
as an ordeal, 220
Occupations and classes, 194
Omaha Indians, 110-112, 93
camping circle, 187
Ordeals of initiation, 104-109
in law, 219-220
Organic theory of society, 35-36
Other world, 124–125
Parent-in-law tabu, 174-175
Parkman on the Iroquois Con-
federation, 205-206
Patriarchate, 133
see also Patrilineal descent
Patrilineal descent, 168-173
Patrilocal residence, 173-174
Patronymic groups, see Patri-
lineal descent
Perry, on Maya culture, 24
Phaethon and Phoebus Apollo,
Phallic worship, 138-139
Phratry, 187-188
Phylactery, 259
Physical criteria of race, 63-64
Physiological fact and socio-
logical theory, 180
fatherhood, 148
birth, 93
puberty, 99-100
puberty and death, 102
death, 114
Physiology of races, 65
Pigmentation and environment,
44-45
Piltdown man, 17
Plato, on social groups, 180-181
Plutarch, on burial by effigy,
121-122
on superstitions, 246-247
Poison ordeal, 219
Political organization, see Gov-
ernment
Polyandry, 146–148
Polygamy, see Polygyny
Polygyny, 148-149, 235
Polynesia, government, 200
tabu in, 221, 224
Post hoc propter hoc, 254, 257
Potlatch system of Northwest
Coast, 195-197
Preferential mating, 166-167
Pregnancy, 89-91
Primogeniture, 172
Procreation, ignorance of, 89
Progress, criteria of, 28-33
Prohibitions, marriage, 155-156
see also Exogamy and Tabu
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