SUBJECT INDEX
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Westermarck, Edward
ABLUTIONS, i. 53–56, ii. 294, 295, 352–354, 358–359, 415, 416, 726
Abortion, i. 378, 408, 409, 413–417, ii. 705
Accessio, ii. 50
Accident, injuries due to, i. 217–240, 315, 316, 319, ii. 714; benefits due to, i. 318 sq.; the future state of persons who have died by, ii. 238, 239, 241
Acts, i. 203–206
Adopted children, rules of inheritance relating to, ii. 46; maternal affection for, ii. 187–189
Adoption, of prisoners of war, i. 336; of unintentional manslayers, i. 484; the blood-covenant represented as a rite of, ii. 206 sq.; marriage between relations by, ii. 369, 374, 375, 748–750, 752
Adultery, ii. 447–455; punishment of, i. 189, 311, 492, 521, 630, ii. 447–45. 452, 453, 558; self-redress in case of, i. 290–293, 491 sq., ii. 447; as a ground for divorce or judicial separation, ii. 397, 455; supposed to injure the harvest, ii. 417, 747; stigmatised by religion, ii. 447, 448, 450, 453–455, 675, 676, 684, 686, 700, 717; refuge denied to persons guilty of, ii. 632 sq.
Aesthetic emotions, i. 326
—— judgments, i. 8
Affection. See Altruistic sentiment; Conjugal, Filial, Fraternal, Marital, Maternal, Paternal, Social affection
Age, restrictions in diet depending on, ii. 319sq. See Children, Old age, Old persons, Seniority
Agricultural tribes, the position of women among, i. 660 sq.; slavery among, i. 673, 674, 681; social aggregates of, ii. 201; sympathy for domestic animals among, ii. 506, see Oxen
Agriculture, originally a feminine pursuit, i. 634, 635 n. 4, 637; moral valuation of, ii. 273–277, 280, 402
Albinos, religious veneration of, ii. 590
All Souls, ii. 550
All-father. See Supreme beings
Alliance, prohibition of marriage between relations by, ii. 369, 377
Alms, connection between sacrifices offered to gods and, i. 565–569; between fasting and the giving of, ii. 316–318; between offerings to the dead and, ii. 550–552; to be given with an ungrudging eye, and not before witnesses, i. 594. See Charity
Altruistic sentiment, the, its origin and development, ch. xxxiv. (ii. 186–228); i. 94, 95, 110–114, 129, 373, 468, 559, ii. 494–506, 510–514. See Conjugal, Filial, Fraternal, Marital, Maternal, Paternal, Social affection
Ancestors. See Dead
Anger, the nature and origin of, i. 21–23, 30, 38–42; in animals, i. 22, ii. 51; in children, i. 22 sq.; towards inanimate things, i. 26, 27, 260–263, 315; appeased by repentance, i. 87; sympathetic resentment produced by the cognition of the signs of, i. 114 sq.; injuries inflicted in, i. 290–298, 311, 316 sq.; a cause of suicide, ii. 233
Animals, regard for the lower, ch. xliv. (ii. 490–514), i. 11 sq.; anger in, i. 22, ii. 51; revenge taken upon, i. 26, 27, 251–253, 255, 256, 258; revenge taken by, i. 37 sq.; self-regarding pride in, i. 39, ii. 137 sq.; retributive kindly emotion in, i. 94; sympathetic resentment in, i. 112, ii. 52; killing of sacred, i. 227, ii. 603–606, 609; of totemic, ii. 210, 603, 604, 606; of various kinds of, see Killing; eating of totemic, i. 227, ii. 210, 211, 323, 324, 606; credited with a conscience, i. 249–251; not responsible for their acts, i. 249–251; treated as responsible agents, i. 251– 260, 264, 308; believed to take vengeance upon men, i. 252, 258, ii. 491, 497, 500, 502, 504, 603; subject to regular punishment, ii. 253–260, 264, 308; sexual intercourse between men and, i. 253 sq., ii. 409, 749; believed to be rewarded or punished after death, i. 258 sq.; regarded as on a footing of equality with man, i. 258–260, ii. 494, 510; non–moral resentment in the case of injuries inflicted by, i. 316; sacrificed instead of human victims, i. 469 sq.; sacrificed for the purpose of saving the lives of men or of other animals, i. 469 sq., ii. 616 sq.; their desire to appropriate and to keep that which has been appropriated, ii. 51; maternal affection among, ii. 186–190, 193; paternal affection among, ii. 189, 190, 193; conjugal attachment among, ii. 191 sq.; abstinence from eating various kinds of, ii. 319–335; from eating any kind of, ii. 335–338, 499; belief in the transmigration of human souls into, ii. 324, 328, 338, 490, 496, 500, 504, 516, 517, 693, 709 sq.; homosexual
intercourse among, ii. 456, 466, 475 n. 2; their fear of strange phenomena, ii. 582 sq.; worship of, ii. 590, 598; sheltered by sacred places, ii. 627–629, 631, 635
Animism, ii. 595–597
Annihilation of the soul, belief in the, ii. 236, 515, 516, 559, 565, 580, 679
Anthropomorphism, ii. 595, 597–600
Antipathies, disinterested, i. 116, 117, 533, 713sq., ii. 113, 166, 185, 227, 262, 266–268, 291, 334, 335, 351, 368, 372–375, 381, 382, 403, 404, 434, 439, 440, 483, 484, 744–746
Antivivisectionists, ii. 512, 514
Apes, the man-like, paternal care among, ii. 189sq.; the duration of their conjugal unions, ii. 192; not gregarious, ii. 195; chiefly monogamous, ii. 391. See Monkeys
Arbitration, i. 368sq.
Arms, stealing of, i. 287, ii. 14; regarded with superstitious veneration, i. 506; oaths taken upon, i. 506, ii. 119–121
Arson, i. 187, 188, 293, 676, ii. 633
Asceticism, ii. 281, 315–318, 355–363, 421
Astronomical changes, abstinence from work connected with, ii. 284–288, 747; fasting connected with, ii. 309–315
Asylums, ii. 628–638; i. 221, 224, 295–297, 307, 308, 380, 427, 579, 580, 585, 668, 669, 690, 692, 696
Atheism, ii. 643sq.
Atonement. Expiation, Expiatory sacrifice
—— the day (fast) of, i. 65, ii. 311, 312, 316, 357–359. 617
Attempts to commit crimes, i. 200, 241– 247, 374