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On this account many men were not married, preferring to live with paid women.” Thomas, Sex and Society, pp. 73-74, quoting Waitz-Gerland. A similar case of the rebellion of men against their position is recorded in Guinea, where religious symbolism was used by the husband as a way of obtaining control and possession of his wife. The maternal system held with respect only to the chief wife.
These clans are grouped together in villages and the life is of a communal character. Each village consists of about a score of clans, and forms with its lands a petty independent state. Die socialen Einrichtungen der Pelauer. Die Religion, de Pelauer. Mr. Frazer, Golden Bough, Part IV, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, pp. 387 et seq., summarises the account of Kubary. See also Waitz-Gerland, Vol.
With the little blacks of the Andamans there is not the slightest agreement. In this we have one of the best evidences against the theory of Waitz-Gerland that the differences in physical appearance are to be attributed to variation merely.
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