Notes and queries on anthropology / edited for the Council of the Anthropological Institute by John George Garson, M.D. and Charles Hercules Read, F.S.A.

Date:
1892
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    (a) 1. Homicide. Whether considered criminal at all? under what circumstances excusable ? 2. Suicide. Whether considered criminal or praiseworthy 1 3. Maiming. 4. Rape. ^.Abduction. 6. Seduction. 1. Abuse of children'. 9>. Assault. 9. Adultery. Are all these offences which may be revenged by the party injured 1 or must he appeal to the chief or oth'ers for redress ] or are they or any of them looked upon as mere venial offences 1 10. Unnatural offences. Does any sense of criminality attach to these 1 Under each head of crime, in- quire as to the extent to which it prevails. (/3) 11. Arson. 12. Trespass. 13. Theft. 14. Fra^id. Are these recognized as offences against the community, or only against the person injured 1 (y) 15. The crimen Icesce majestatis, including treason, rebel- lion, and all offences against the chief of the state. Are his dignity and person protected by any special sanction ? (8) 16. Offences against the pei-sons of priests or the cere- monies of religion. 17. Dissent from the prevailing religion. 18. Are either or both of these esteemed criminal? and in what degree-? 19. Does there exist a criminal class? 20. Does Thuggism prevail, or any organized system of crime ? if so, give statistics. E. W. B. No. XXXII.—MORALS. The imperfection of oui' accounts of morals among savage and barbarous peoples is in a great measure due to travellers supposing the particular system of morals in which they themselves were educated to be the absolute system ; thus they have merely approved or condemned what corresponded with, or opposed their own notions, but have scarcely ever appreciated the fact that every tribe has its own system of morality, based on its own principles of right and wi-ong. It is necessary to place ourselves at the point of view of the