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Social reaction to crime: law and morals in the Schouten Islands, New Guinea
Royal Anthropological institute of Great Britain & Ireland • 68 • Published In 1938 • Pages: 223-262 , plates X-XII
By: Hogbin, Herbert Ian.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author relates incidents of adultery and thievery which occurred during his stay among the Wogeo. The attitude of the culprits and of the community toward each of the crimes committed, and the eventual disposition of the case are recorded in some detail. The author concludes that the reaction to crime is not a unanimous rising up in support of accepted moral principles; it instead depends on individual motivations to take action (or to find extenuating circumstances not to) according to the particular circumstances that relate him to the principals.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Public opinion
- Ethics
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Localized kin groups
- Inter-community relations
- Crime
- Extramarital sex relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Wogeo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1934
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vokeo Island, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- By H. Ian Hogbin
- Published for the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland by Trübner & Co.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- unk82052056
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vokeo Island (Papua New Guinea)