 | Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown - 1922 - 562 pagini
...that has been followed from time immemorial, and any other way is wrong, is contrary to custom, to law. Law, for the Andaman Islander, means that there...all in the time of the ancestors, and is not to be interfered with, the results of any such interference being evil, ranging from merely minor ills such... | |
 | Max Gluckman - 398 pagini
...that had been followed from time immemorial, and any other way is wrong, is contrary to custom, to law. Law, for the Andaman Islander, means that there is an order of the universe, characterized by absolute uniformity; this order was established once for all in the time of the ancestors,... | |
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... good serviceable weapon, whereas the wrong way will give an inferior or useless one. The Andaman Islander tends to look at the matter from a different angle; the right way is right because it is the one that has been followed from time immemorial,... 