 | L. Krishna Anantha Krishna Iyer (Diwan Bahadur) - 1925 - 374 pages
...most striking features of their social relations is the marked equality and affection which subsist between husband and wife, and the consideration and...might with advantage be emulated by certain classes of civilized men." It should also be said that infanticide and cannibalism were never practised by... | |
 | Robert Briffault - 1927 - 808 pages
...husband is of no extraordinary rarity in the Nicobars." 3 Much the same is true of the Andamanese ; " the consideration and respect with which women are...advantage be emulated by certain classes in our own land," says Mr. Man.* They " have a good deal of influence and are under no restrictions." 6 In all parts... | |
 | Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1892 - 566 pages
...starving labourer who would gladly exchange the benefits of European civilisation for the blessings of such savagery." These small islanders who have...Fortunately, however, all his statements have lately boen confirmed by another authority — Colonel Cadell, the Chief Commissioner of these islands.^ He... | |
 | Max Muller F - 1986 - 500 pages
...most striking features of their social relations is the marked equality and affection which exists between husband and wife,' and the 'consideration...cannibalism or infanticide, they are never practised by the Andamanese.' But this is not all. These little fellows who inhabit these beautiful islands have... | |
 | Sherry B Ortner - 1997 - 276 pages
...for Andamanese Benedicts to be considerably at the beck and call of their better halves; in short, the consideration and respect with which women are...advantage be emulated by certain classes in our own land. (Man 1883: 317) Concerning community influence or "leadership," the question of equivalence gets a... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1888 - 672 pages
...most striking features of their social relations is the marked equality and affection which subsists between husband and wife,' and "the consideration...advantage be emulated by certain classes in our own land." It should also be mentioned that cannibalism and infanticide, two such common incidents of savage life,... | |
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... dissolved. Conjugal fidelity till death is not the exception but the rule, and matrimonial differences, which occur but rarely, are easily settled with or without the intervention of friends. One of the most striking features of their social relations... 
