sub-barbaric

Updated: January 17, 2026

Let us look at a sub-barbaric society say that of Zululand, of New Zealand, of the Iroquois League, or at a savage society like that of the Kanekas, or of those Australian tribes about whom we have very many interesting and copious accounts. If we begin with the Australians, we observe that society is based on certain laws of marriage enforced by capital punishment.

Andrew Lang - Custom and Myth