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Note 608 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

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Westermarck, op. cit., 393; Ratzel, op. cit., III, 16; Wilson and Felkin, Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan, I, 187. Purchase or exchange of gifts exists widely among the peoples on the northern borders of Abyssinia: Munzinger, Ostaf. Studien, 146 ff., 240, 241, 319 ff., 387. Cf. also Post, op. cit., 183, 184; Letourneau, op. cit., 137 ff.; Wake, op. cit., 213-15; Waitz, Anthropologie, II, 108-17 (many examples).

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