Note 408 — Chapter III · THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY

Polyandry is favored by poverty and scarcity of women; but it is essentially the outgrowth of ancient sexual relations: Hellwald, op. cit., 258-61; agreeing with Lippert, Kulturgeschichte, II, 10. Marshall, A Phrenologist amongst the Todas, 223 ff., follows Lubbock and McLennan in regarding polyandry as a survival of communism. On the other hand, Fritsch, Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrikas, 227, is decidedly of the opinion that polyandry among the Kafir Herero is the direct result of poverty and low condition (niedrige Gesinnung); it is, he says, "keine Sitte, sondern eine Unsitte," harmonizing with the laxity of their moral ideas.