Group Marriage

While recognizing that Lewis H. Morgan’s work on group marriage is creditable, the author argues that the consanguine marriage and consanguine family described by Morgan never existed. Using archaeological, ethnological, palaeoanthropological and zoological data, the author tries to prove that dual-gentile group marriage, as the first form of marital organization in human society, developed out of a state of promiscuity among the primitive groups and was the source of all forms of actual group marriage.