Crime and Custom in Savage Society

Malinowski, Bronislaw

ISBN 10: 0710030436 ISBN 13: 9780710030436

Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1970

Synopsis

Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. 1970. Ninth Printing. Green cloth hardcover, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo. Frontis., illustrated with b/w photos. [i]-xii, 132 pages, including Index, and list of titles in the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy & Scientific Method Series. Condition: A Very Good, clean, tight copy in Dust Jacket which shows light edgewear, not price-clipped.

About this title

About the Author:

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century. He was known for his ethnographic work in the Trobriand Islands, which yielded material for such classic works as Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Sexual Life of Savages in Northwestern Melanesia, Coral Gardens and Their Magic, and Crime and Custom in Savage Society.

Review:

Now and then a book is written which cuts mercilessly through an accumulation of traditional conceptions and by the light of overlooked or misinterpreted facts and common sense shows us how absurd the orthodox ideas have really been. Such a book is this volume of Dr. Malinowski's, which brilliantly, concisely, and in non-technical language demonstrates how very wrong and indeed impossible are the currently accepted views of some of the fundamentals of savage life. (Saturday Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0710030436
• ISBN 13: 9780710030436
• Binding: Textbook Binding
• Number of pages: 152