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Chapter Four. Religious Beliefs and Practices |
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possible reasons for public morality |
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The belief in Gawang as the arbiter of human behavior can perhaps be correlated with the emergence of a sense of public concern with the conduct of individual members of a community, a concern absent in many less well-organized tribal societies. While in a society where conditions are in more or less permanent flux, such as that of the Daflas, individuals can pursue their own ends without being disciplined by public opinion, the Konyaks were bound by a code of behavior enforced by the members of their own in-groups. |
