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Part III. General Sociological Culture — Continued. 



Chapter XIII. Domestic life and martial relations — Continued. Page 



Marriage and marriage contracts 104 



The marriage rite , 104 



Marriage by capture 105 



Prenatal marriage contracts and child marriage 107 



Polygamy and kindred institutions 107 



Endogamy and consanguineous marriages 108 



Intertribal and other marriages 108 



Married life and the position of the wife 109 



Residence of the son-in-law and the brother-in-law system 110 



Chapter XIV. Domestic life: Pregnancy, birth, and childhood 111 



Desire for progeny 111 



Birth and pregnancy taboos 111 



Taboos to be observed by the husband 111 



Taboos to be observed by the wife 112 



Taboos to be observed by both husband and wife 112 



Taboos enjoined on visitors 112 



Abortion 112 



Artificial abortion 112 



Involuntary abortion 112 



The approach of parturition 113 



The midwife 113 



Prenatal magic aids 113 



Prenatal religious aids 114 



Accouchement and ensuing events 114 



Postnatal customs 115 



Taboos 115 



The birth ceremony 115 



The naming and care of the child 116 



Birth anomalies 117 



Monstrosities 117 



Albinism 117 



Hermaphroditism 117 



Chapter XV. Domestic life: Medicine, sickness, and death 118 



Medicine and disease 118 



Natural medicines and diseases 118 



Magic ailments and means of producing them 119 



The composition of a few "Kometan" 119 



Other magic means 120 



Bodily ailments proceeding from supernatural causes 120 



Sickness due to capture of the "soul" by an inimical spirit 120 



Epidemics attributed to the malignancy of sea demons 120 



Propitiation of the demons of contagious diseases 121 



Sickness and death 121 



The theory of death 121 



Fear of the dead and of. the death spirits 121 



Incidents accompanying deaths 123 



Preparation of the corpse 123 



The funeral 124 



Certain mourning taboos are observed 125 



Death and burial of one killed by an enemy, of a warrior chief, and of a priest 126 



The after world 126 



The death feast... 127 



Chapter XVI. Social enjoyments 129 



Instrumental music 129 



The drum 129 



The gong 130 



Flutes 130 



The pailndag flute 130 



The to-&li flute 130 



The Idnfm flute 130 



The sd-bai flute 130 



