Note 323 — Chapter III · THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY
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For examples of all these customs read Westermarck, op. cit., 124 ff. On the sacrifice of widows in India and elsewhere, explained usually as an evidence of patria potestas under influence of ancestor-worship, consult Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 328 ff.; Kohler, "Indisches Ehe- und Familienrecht," ZVR., III, 376 ff.; Letourneau, L'évolution du mariage, chap. xv; Wake, Marriage and Kinship, 437 ff.; Hellwald, Die mensch. Familie, 478-80 (India), 381 (China).