 | William Forbes Skene - Scotland - 1876 - 550 pages
...men of other tribes. At any rate there remains the fact, after every deduction has been made, that the fathers and mothers were in no case of the same family name ;8 and he quotes this as a reason for believing that exogamy prevailed among the Picts. But this explanation,... | |
 | John Ferguson McLennan - Marriage - 1886 - 434 pages
...men of other tribes. At any rate there remains the fact, after every deduction has been made, that the fathers and mothers were in no case of the same family name. We have now, by an irresistible array of instances, established the fact of exogamy being a most widely... | |
 | Charles Augustus Hanna - Scots-Irish - 1902 - 648 pages
...men of other tribes. At any rate, there remains the fact, after every deduction has been made, that the fathers and mothers were in no case of the same family name ; and he quotes this as a reason for believing that exogamy prevailed among the Picts. But this explanation,... | |
 | William Ridgeway - 1931 - 788 pages
...men of other tribes. At any rate there remains the fact, after every deduction ha? been made, that the fathers and mothers were in no case of the same family name." He is led thus to believe that exogamy prevailed among the Picts. But as female succession is a natural... | |
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M'Lennan, in his very original work on primitive marriage, to whom these facts were communicated by the Editor, states that they raise a strong presumption " that all the fathers " were men of other tribes. At any rate, there re... 