Note 21.2 — THE SCOPE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

A. S. Thomson, The Story of New Zealand (London, 1859), i. 103. Compare E. Dieffenbach, Travels in New Zealand (London, 1843), ii. 105: “The breaking of the tapu, if the crime does not become known, is, they believe, punished by the atua, who inflicts disease upon the criminal; if discovered, it is punished by him whom it regards, and often becomes the cause of war.”