Note 24.1 — THE SCOPE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Vincendon-Dumoulin et C. Desgraz, Iles Marquises ou Nouk-hiva (Paris, 1843), pp. 258-260. For details of the taboo system in the Marquesas Islands, see G. H. von Langsdorff, Reise um die Welt (Francfort, 1812), i. 114-119; Le P. Matthias G * * * Lettres sur les Isles Marquises (Paris, 1843), pp. 47 sqq. This last writer, who was a missionary to the Marquesas, observes that while taboo was both a political and a religious institution, he preferred to class it under the head of religion because it rested on the authority of the gods and formed the highest sanction of the whole religious system.