The making of the local tribe of savagery--Earliest known stage of society--Result of complex processes--Elaborate tribal rules--Laws altered deliberately: sometimes borrowed--Existing legislative methods of savages not primitive--The tribe a gradual conquest of culture--The tribe a combination of small pre-tribal kinships--History of progress towards the tribe traceable in surviving institutions--From passion to Law--Rudeness of native culture in Australia--Varieties of social organisation there--I. Tribes with two phratries, totems, female descent--Tribes of this organisation differ as to ceremonies and beliefs--Some beliefs tend to polytheism: others towards monotheism--Some tribes of pri…
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