| Author |
Westermarck, Edward, 1862-1939 |
| Author of introduction, etc. |
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 |
| Title |
The history of human marriage
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| Edition |
Third edition
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| Note |
Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Human_Marriage
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The origin of marriage -- A human pairing season in primitive times -- The antiquity of human marriage -- A criticism of the hypothesis of promiscuity -- Marriage and celibacy -- The courtship of man -- Means of attraction -- The liberty of choice -- Sexual selection among animals -- The sexual selection of man: typical beauty -- The law of similarity -- Prohibition of marriage between kindred -- Sexual selection as influenced by affection and sympathy, and by calculation -- Marriage by capture and marriage by purchase -- The decay of marriage by purchase; the marriage portion -- Marriage ceremonies and rites -- The forms of human marriage -- The duration of human marriage -- Summary.
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| Credits |
E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by HathiTrust Digital Library (www.hathitrust.org/)
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| Reading Level |
Reading ease score: 74.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
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| Subject |
Marriage -- History
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
59386 |
| Release Date |
Apr 28, 2019 |
| Most Recently Updated |
Jun 15, 2020 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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