Social Control and Vengeance in Plateau Tonga Society1

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1750-0184|23|3|199-212

ISSN: 0001-9720

Source: Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, Vol.23, Iss.3, 1953-07, pp. : 199-212

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Abstract

I am here concerned with social control as it exists in Tonga society, where there are no obvious political institutions concerned in the maintenance of order. As in any society, control rests eventually on the sanction of force, here applied through a resort to vengeance on the part of an organized group if it feels that this is the only way to enforce its rights.