ABSTRACT
All study of the origins of social institutions must be based on what ethnology can tell us of the psychology of the lower races and on the primitive conceptions of human relations which are thus established. It is only in early modes of thought that we can find the explanation of ceremonies and systems which originated in primitive society; and, if ceremony and system are the concrete forms in which human relations are expressed, an examination, ethnological and psychological, of human relations, is indispensable for enquiry into human institutions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1
The Mystic Rose
chapter 1
Introductory
part 2
The Taboo Imposed
chapter 2
Taboo
chapter 3
Sexual Taboo
chapter 4
Human Relations
chapter 5
Human Relations (Continued)
chapter 6
Human Relations (Concluded)
chapter 7
Commensal Relations
chapter 8
Sexual Relations
chapter 9
Sexual Relations (Concluded)
part 3
The Taboo Removed
chapter 10
The Breaking of Taboo
chapter 11
Theory of Union
chapter 12
Theory of Change and Exchange
chapter 13
Confirmation and Engagement
chapter 14
Marriage and its Ceremonies
part 4
Secondary Taboo