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for assuming that the natives ever meant to imply more
than a like social status when applying like kinship terms.It is true that Morgan interpreted the sororate as a relic
of group marriage, and Frazer has extended the interpre-
tation to the levirate as well. But these are empty guesses,
which may be disregarded. Levirate and sororate are real
institutions intelligible in their context; they are not rend-
ered one whit more intelligible by conceiving them as sur-
vivals of a condition that has never been observed.To sum up. Sexual communism as a condition taking the
place of the individual family exists nowhere at the present
time; and the arguments for its former existence must be
rejected as unsatisfactory. This conclusion will find con-
firmation in the phenomena of primitive family life. 4
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124et passim. Merker: 27 seq.
2. Annual Archaeological Report: 112. Roscoe, 1907: 105.
Rockhill: 211 seq. Tafel: 11, 124 seq. Rivers, 1906: 4 77)-
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