The social system was theoretically based on the four castes, but Chinese accounts indicate that in questions of marriage and inheritance older ideas connected with matriarchy and a division into clans still had weight.
Footnote 287: This shows thatmatriarchy must have been in force in Camboja.
Westermark explains matriarchy in a simpler and more natural way, by the intimate relations of the child to the mother.
Equality in the rights of the two sexes and matriarchy (vide Chapter XIII) will not render conjugal relations less intimate, but will, on the contrary, deepen their roots by raising their moral value.
Among nations where the denomination of uncles exists, and where the married woman lives with her family till she has a child, matriarchy results quite naturally from this fact.
MacLennan maintains the existence of matriarchy in promiscuity, but this is inadmissible.
In effect, however, women owned the country and women governed it; suddenly the matriarchy existed.
The present matriarchyevolved by accident, not design.
Another relic of declining matriarchywas the (from the Roman standpoint) almost inexplicable respect of the Germans for the female sex.
In most of the Malay States exogamous matriarchy has in comparatively modern times been superseded by feudalism (i.
But to build up a theory of matriarchy on this foundation is strangely wide of the facts.
Again the origin of the change from the first period of matriarchy is sought by Bachofen in religion.
Let us concentrate our attention on the Das Mutterrecht of Bachofen, whose work as the great champion of matriarchyclaims our most careful consideration.
The days whenmatriarchy was the form of government were not very remote; it survived in a great number of myths and also, subconsciously perhaps, in the soul of man.
Whether Schurtz gives us a correct picture of these men's unions or not, there can be no doubt that the struggle against matriarchy originated in them.
For instance, Maine regards matriarchy as a late Brahmanic intrusion on patriarchy, an inner growth.
But it is from the Southern wild tribes that matriarchy has crept into Hinduism, and thence into Brahmanism.
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