CHAPTER VII

TRACES OF PERIOD OF TRANSITION AVOIDANCES

Survivals in custom testify to a long period of transition from group to tribe--Stealthy meetings of husband and wife--Examples--Evidence to a past of jealousy of incestuous group sire--Evidence from teknonymy--Husband named as father of his child--Formal capture as a symbol of legal marriage--Avoidance between father-in-law and son-in-law--Arose in stage of transition--Causes of mother-in-law and son-in-law avoidance--Influence of jealousy--Examples--Mr. Tylor’s statistics--Resentment of capture not primal cause of this avoidance--Note on avoidance.