Obviously, this cultural “value” of treachery posed an acute social problem for the Sawi. If treachery is supreme, how can two villages ever live at peace with one another? The culture provided a remarkable “redemptive analogy”: the peace child.245 The two villages exchange an infant, who is adopted by the opposite tribe. The peace child is sacred, and an enduring bond of peace and trust. For the Sawi, “If a man would actually give his own son to his enemies, that man could be trusted.”246
