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Similarly with the Arabs, where one woman was the wife of several men, the custom was either for the woman to decide to which of them the child was to belong, or the child was assigned by an expert to one of the joint husbands to be regarded as his own. McLennan, The Patriarchal Theory. Survey of Canada, Report for 1878-79, 134 B. Cited by Frazer, Totemism, p. 76. Turner, Samoa, p. 78.
McLennan, on the other hand, regarded the custom as due to uncertainty of paternity the children were called after the mother because the father was unknown. Let us concentrate our attention on the Das Mutterrecht of Bachofen, whose work as the great champion of matriarchy claims our most careful consideration.
A savage inherits his totem name, usually through the mother's side. A man is born a wolf of the Delawares, his totem is the wolf, he cannot help himself. These are quite separate from totems, as Mr. Max Muller also points out. Of totems, I, for one, must always write in the sense of Mr. McLennan, who introduced totemism to science.
I. P. McDowell, alias Charles Adams, age 28, printer, born in Illinois. C. D. McLennan, age 48, longshoreman, born in Georgia. Carl Newman, age 30, laborer, born in Sweden. John Nugent, age 38, laborer, born in New York. Malachi O'Neill, age 34, blacksmith, born in Ireland. Earl Osborne, age 33, logger, born in North Carolina. Jack Paterson, age 24, laborer, born in Illinois.
Both of these scholars descend intellectually from a man less scholarly than they, but, perhaps, more original and acute than any of us, my friend the late Mr. J. F. McLennan. To Mannhardt also much is owed, and, of course, above all, to Dr. Tylor. These writers, like Mr. Farnell and Mr.
The first is animal-worship, a phenomenon of frequent occurrence and of perplexing import. Mr. McLennan has shown that much at least of the widespread worship of animals is to be traced to an early totem-stage of society, when animals were held sacred as the ancestors of men. In the second place, totemism explains the view taken in the early world of the nature of religious fellowship.
If you must fight and scratch like a brace of Kilkenny cats, why the hell don't you sneak quietly into the woods and fight it out instead of exhibiting your blatant jackasserie to the simple people of Dallas and McLennan counties and thereby bringing our blessed church into contempt!
McLennan brought forward his theory almost simultaneously with that of Bachofen. The basis of his view is a belief in an ancient communism in women. He holds that the earliest form of human societies was the group or horde, and not the family.
Thus the phenomena which the philological school of mythology explains by a disease of language we would explain by survival from a savage state of society and from the mental peculiarities observed among savages in all ages and countries. E. B. Tylor in Primitive Culture, and by Mr. McLennan in his Primitive Marriage and essays on Totemism. My Criticism of Mr. Max Muller
They were to lose their votes; the children were to receive no more the mother’s name, and they themselves were no longer to be called after the goddess.” McLennan, Studies, “Kinship in Ancient Greece,” p. 235. The origin of these myths is perfectly clear.
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