the ethnological notebooks of karl marx - Marxists Internet Archive

3i T h e classes are in pairs v o n brothers u. sisters derived from each other u. d.gentes, verm ittelst der classes, sind auch in pairs, w ie fo lg t:Gentes M ale Female M ale Female/) Iguana a ll are M urri u. M ata oder Kubbi und Kapota2) Em u „ Kumbo u. Buta oder Ippai u. Ippataf ) Kangeroo „ M urri und M ata od. Kubbi u. Kapota4) Bandicoot „ Kumbo u. Buta oder Ippai u. Ippataj ) Opossum „ M urri u. M ata oder Kubbi u. Kapota6) Blacksnake „ Kumbo u. Buta od. Ippai u. IppataT h e connection o f children w ith a particular gens is proven by the law o fmarriage. So Iguana-Mata must marry Kumbo; her children are Kubbi u.Kapota, u. nothw endig Iguana in gens, because descent in the female line.Iguana-Kapota must marry Ippai, her children are M urri u. M ata u. dittoIguana in gens. So Em u-Ippata must marry Kubbi, her children are Kumbou. Buta u. o f the E m u gens. So die gens maintained b y keeping in itsmembership the children o f all its female members. Ebenso mit d.remaining gentes. Each gens is made up th(e)oretically o f 2 supposedfem ale ancestors, and contains 4 o f the 8 classes. W ahrscheinlich ursprünglichnur 2 male u. 2 female classes, set opposite to each other inrespect to the right o f m arriage; and that the 4 afterward subdivided into 8.T he classes evidently as an anterior organisation nachher arranged w ithinthe gentes, not form ed by the subdivision o f the gentes.D a d. Iguana, Kangaroo u. Opossum gentes are counterparts to each other inthe classes they contain, so subdivisions o f an original gens; ebenso andrerseitsE m u, Bandicoot u. Blacksnake; so 2 original gentes mit d. right in each tomarry into the other, but not in itself. D ies confirm ed dch d. fact, dass 1),3), 5) originally nicht intermarry durften unter einander, ebenso w enigw ie 2), 4), 6). W hen the three were one gens intermarriage unter ihnenverboten; dies follow ed the subdivisions, because they w ere o f the samedescent, although under different gentile names. Dasselbe exact gefundenbei den Seneca-Iroquois.D a marriage restricted to particular classes, w hen there w ere but 2 gentes,one h alf o f all the females o f one w ere the w ives o f one h alf o f all themales97 o f the other. A fter their subdivision into 6 the benefit o f marryingout o f the gens was neutralised by the presence o f the classes mitihren restrictions; hence continuous in-and-in marriages, beyond theimmediate degree o f brother and sister.%.B. descents o f Ippai u. Kapota g ivin g to each intermediate pair 2 children,a male and a female, dann:1) Ippai marries Kapota\ their children M urri u. M ata. D ie letztem 2können nicht einander heirathen.2) M urri marries Buta . . . their children: Ippai u. Ippata;M ata marries Kumbo their children: Kubbi u. Kapota;142