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* "Publication of matters concerning the Government with whom one has enjoyed a confidential and cooperative relation, without discussion of the material beforehand, amounts to a betrayal of confidence. It would make cooperation in future work extremely difficult for oneself and for other anthropologists. As primitive peoples become more westernized and more sophisticated, the same rules of confidence will apply to them." Чуть выше: "But practices that can only be termed criminal by the European administration, such as infanticide and sadistic punishments and abortion, do occur in primitive societies ... Should the research worker report to Governmentthe individual cases? If it is an undesirable practice, the important issue is not that it does occur, but why it occurs. Such explanation will be far more valuable to Government ..."
** E.g. "<o>ne of their ideas was to meet the problem of theft <of food> with their conception of European justice, namely public execution. Two thieves who had been caught in the act were rapidly and excitedly sentenced to death. But immediately before their execution I intervened ... I took the two prisoners to my house.
I sat in my house sadly reflecting that my role as an observer had come to an end. It had taken a long time, but at last I realized that this could not be an ordinary field trip."
*** "Firth had been assigned kinship status in 1929. He was ‘son’ to the premier chief of the island and ‘brother’ to the heir apparent, the eldest son of the chief. I was ‘brother’ to the third chief, and to this third chief in turn Firth was ‘father’. My connection to Firth’s ‘brother’, the heir apparent of the premier chief, was that of _tau soa_, a traditional, stylized, and intimate form of friendship ..." О сложностях перевода таких терминов см. более ранний текст.

Firth - op cit.
Spillius - "Natural Disaster and Political Crisis in a Polynesian Society" (1957), parts i & ii