 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1868 - 536 pages
...its original form, was identical, in all essential respects, with the former. It remains to notice a remarkable custom of the Hawaiians, which had not...arose from the fact that two or more brothers, with thcir wives, and two or more sisters, with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common.... | |
 | Anthropology - 1874 - 822 pages
...ytfoif où jafjofoiv, unter den Quaestiones rumana«' (b. Plutarch). ') The relationship of Pinalua arose from the fact, that two or more brothers with their wives or two ami more sisters with their husbands were inclined to possess each other in common (Andrews).... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - Civilization - 1877 - 698 pages
...commented upon one of the Hawaiian terms of relationship as follows: "The relationship of ptinalrta is rather amphibious. It arose from the fact that two or more brothers with their wives, or two or more ' sisters with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common ; but the... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - Civilization - 1877 - 586 pages
...commented upon one of the Hawaiian terms of relationship as follows : " The relationship of ptinaltia is rather amphibious. It arose from the fact that two or more brothers with their wives, or two or more sisters with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common ; but the... | |
 | Anthropology - 1879 - 474 pages
...more likely to have had a comparatively late origin. Judge Andrews says: " The relationship of Ptmahla is rather amphibious. It arose from the fact that two or more brothers with their wives, or two or more sisters with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common : but the... | |
 | John Ferguson McLennan - Marriage - 1886 - 434 pages
...Malayan system, about which they were giving information to Mr. Morgan. Mr. Andrews says only that " the relationship of Pinalua is rather amphibious....the fact that two or more brothers with their wives, or two or more sisters with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common ; but the... | |
 | Edwin Sidney Hartland - Childbirth - 1910 - 348 pages
...punalua, applied by a man to the husbands of his wife's sisters, observes: "The relationship of punalua is rather amphibious. It arose from the fact that two or more brothers with their wives, or two or more sisters with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common ; but the... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - Marriage - 1921 - 604 pages
...Sandwich Islanders. Judge Lorin Andrews wrote in 1860 to Morgan : — " The relationship of ptinal&a is rather amphibious. It arose from the fact that two or more brothers with their wives, or two or more sisters with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common ; but the... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1922 - 616 pages
...Sandwich Islanders. Judge Lorin Andrews wrote in 1860 to Morgan : — " The relationship of punalua is rather amphibious. It arose from the fact that two or more brothers with their wives, or two or more sisters with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common ; but the... | |
 | Robert Briffault - Anthropology - 1927 - 814 pages
...Hawaiian and Marquesan groups. " The relationship of ' punalua,' " says Judge Louis Andrew of Honolulu, " is rather amphibious. It arose from the fact that two or more brothers with their wives, or two or more sisters with their husbands, were inclined to possess one 1 L. Taut. iht. " Etude sur... | |
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The relationship of punalua is rather amphibious. It arose from the fact that two or more brothers with their wives, or two or more sisters with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common ; but the modern use of the word is that of... 
