Note 402 — Chapter III · THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY
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This may be the explanation of the levirate among the Todas: Marshall, A Phrenologist amongst the Todas, 206-9, 213. Similar practical motives influenced the rise of the levirate elsewhere: Dorsey, "Omaha Sociology," III. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 258; cf. Martius, Ethnographie, 117, notes; idem, Rechtszustande, 64.