Part 1 Introductory: social organization; associations in the lower stages of culture; consanguinity and kinship; the tribe; kinship groups - totem kins; phratries. Part 2 Descent: descent of kinship, origin and primitive form; matriliny in Australia; relation to potestas, position of widow etc; change of rule of descent; relation to potestas, inheritance and local organization. Part 3 Definitions and history: definitions - tribe, sub-tribe, local group, phratry, class, totem kin; "blood" and "shade"; Kamilaroi type; history of research in Australia; general sketch. Part 4 Tables of classes, phratries etc: class names; phratry names; comparison of "blood" and phratry names; relations of class and phratry organizations. Part 5 Phratry names: the phratriac areas; borrowing of names; their meanings; antiquity of phratry names; eaglehawk myths; racial conflicts; intercommunication; tribal migrations. Part 6 Origin of phratries: Mr. Lang's theory and its basis; borrowing of phratry names; split groups; the Victorian area; totems and phratry names; reformation theory of phratriac origin. Part 7 Class names: classes later than phratries; anomalous phratry areas; four-class systems; borrowing of names; eight-class system; resemblances and differences of names; place of origin; formative elements of the names -suffixes, prefixes; meanings of the class names. Part 8 Theories of the origin of classes: effect of classes; Dr. Durkheim's theory of origin; origin in grouping of totems; Dr. Durkheim on origin of eight classes; Herr Cunow's theory of classes. Part 9 Kinship terms: descriptive and classificatory systems; kinship terms in Wathi-Wathi, Ngerikudi-speaking people and Arunta; essential features; Urabunna; Dieri; distinction of elder and younger. Part 10 Types of sexual unions: terminology of sociology; marriage; classification of types; hypothetical and existing forms. Part 11 Group marriage and Morgan's theories: passage from promiscuity; reformatory movements; incest; relative harmfulness of such unions; natural aversion; Australian facts. Part 12 Group marriage and the terms of relationship: mother and child; Kurnai terms; Dieri evidence; "Noa"; group mothers; classification and descriptive terms; poverty of language; terms express status; the savage view natural. Part 13 Pirrauru: theories of group marriage; meaning of group; Dieri customs; Tippa-malku marriage; obscure points; "Pirrauru"; obscure points; relation of "pirrauru" to "tippa-malku" unions; Kurnandaburi; Wakelbura customs; Kurnai organization; position of widow; "Piraungaru" of Urabunna; "Pirrauru" and group marriage; "Pirrauru" not a survival; result of scarcity of women; duties of "Pirrauru" spouses; "Pirrauru" -obscure points. Part 14 Temporary unions: wife lending; initiation ceremonies; "Jus primae noctis"; punishment for adultery; "Ariltha" of central tribes; group marriage unproven; appendix.
