Note 549 — Chapter V · A CRITICISM OF THE HYPOTHESIS OF PROMISCUITY
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Burckhardt, ‘Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys,’ p. 75. Wilken’s ‘Das Matriarchat bei den alten Arabern’ and Professor Robertson Smith’s (loc. cit. p. 151) suggestion that the maternal system alone prevailed among the ancient Arabs, must be regarded as a mere hypothesis. Cf. Redhouse, ‘Notes on Prof. E. B. Tylor’s “Arabian Matriarchate.”‘