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Title: The history of mankind
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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raph.) sixteen or eighteen, when his beard begins to grow, he is admitted into thecircle of the men. The child receives a name as soon as it can walk, but new names are given onspecial occasions, as at the attainment of manhood. In naming the child it is THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY IN AUSTRALIA 367 customary to take account of his place among his brothers and sisters, and of hisbirthplace. The father and mother also assume new names from the birth ofone child to that of another. The origin of the female dual names is unknown. In consequence of the custom of never pronouncing the name of a deceasedperson, taken together with that of borrowing names from places, local peculiarities,animals, and events, a death is often followed by a change not only in the namesof all persons bearing the same name with the deceased, but also in geographicaland other appellations. To the proper name is added the tribal name, which istaken from some animate or inanimate object, and enjoys a wide extension. Over
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Queensland girls, one showing scar-tattooin£ (From a photograph. a district of West Australia, 400 to 500 miles in breadth, Grey found the samenames. The practice of exchanging names may also contribute to this—friendscall each other brothers and have corresponding mutual obligations. In WideBay the custom was to rub noses while each pronounced the name of a friend,and therewith the alliance was concluded. The separate tribes are broken up into a larger or smaller number of groups,which were expected to abstain from marriage within themselves. For example,the South Australian tribe of the Narrinyeri is broken up into eighteen groups,each of which is regarded as a family among whose members marriage is pro-hibited. Each family group has its totem, known in West Australia as Kobong.Grey found everywhere an objection to any sort of interference with the Kobong.If a man finds the animal which forms his cognisance asleep, he will not kill it, and 368 THE HISTORY OF MANKIND in the chase

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