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About the Book:- The Mystic Rose (1902), dealt with the anthropology of marriage. Author emphasised the importance of marriage ceremonies, explaining sexual and marriage custom with reference to taboo. Mr. Crawley has chosen a singularly inappropriate title. The first half of it is derived from the phrase applied by fantastic devotion to the virgin Mary. Its relation to the real Subject is, to say the least far-fetched. The second half is accordingly necessary not so much to explain as to explain away the first half. Yet even the second half does not succeed in correctly expressing the contents of the work. Properly speaking, the author has given us not a study of primitive marriage, but a study of taboo in relation to marriage. As such, it is an important contribution to the discussion of the many questions connected with the evolution of the human relation known as marriage. About the Author:- Ernest Crawley was born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, the eldest child of Rev. Samuel Crawley, rector of Oddington, Oxfordshire. He was the elder brother of the Olympic lawn tennis player Walter Crawley. He was educated at Sedbergh School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in classics in 1890. He became an assistant master for seven years at St John's School, Leatherhead, before teaching at Lancing College from 1898 to 1901 and at Bradfield School from 1901 to 1905. From 1905 until the Lent Term of 1906 he taught the Sixth Form at Abingdon School. In 1906 he became headmaster of Derby School, though he resigned in December 1908 and took up journalism. In 1913, he resigned from being a clergyman under the terms of the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870. The Title 'THE MYSTIC ROSE: A Study of Primitive Marriage written/authored/edited by ERNEST CRAWLEY', published in the year 2022. The ISBN 9788121262248 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 510 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Sociology, Culture. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-