Note (59) — 2.

»If it be granted that exogamy existed in practice, on the lines of Mr. Darwin's theory, before the totem beliefs lent to the practice a sacred sanction, our task is relatively easy. The first practical rule would be that of the jealous Sire ›No males to touch the females in my camp‹, with expulsion of adolescent sons. In efflux of time that rule, become habitual, would be, ›No marriage within the local group‹. Next let the local groups receive names, such as Emus, Crows, Opossums, Snipes, and the rule becomes, ›No Marriage within the local group of animal name; no Snipe to marry a Snipe‹. But, if the primal groups were not exogamous, they would become so, as soon as totemic myths and tabus were developed out of the animal, vegetable, and other names of small local groups.« Secret of the Totem, p. 143. (Die Hervorhebung in der Mitte dieser Stelle ist mein Werk.) – In seiner letzten Äußerung über den Gegenstand (Folklore, Dezember 1911) teilt A. Lang übrigens mit, daß er die Ableitung der Exogamie aus dem »general totemic« Tabu aufgegeben habe.