Crime and custom in savage society (Anthropology) - Tapa blanda

"Malinowski has said a great deal for so small a book. This little treatise is destined to be widely read and oft referred to." --Frank H. Hankins, Social Forces "Brilliant, weighted with many concrete facts, illustrated with graphic accounts of Melanesian crimes and tragedies, and illuminated with the clear insight of one who knows these people well, Crime and Custom offers the social scientist a fascinating and scholarly study in the sociology of law." --Leslie A. White, American Journal of Sociology "[A] stimulating contribution to the study of law and order in a primitive society." --I. Schapera, Man "Rarely has such a little book had such a big intellectual influence... Until well after World War II almost every work of legal anthropology felt the need to cite it and take it on. Even now, it remains a core element of the legal anthropologist's basic literacy." --John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr, Law & Social Inquiry

This book is one of the most important works of modern anthropology. Starting from his studies of the Melanesian society on the Trobriand Islands off New Guinea, Malinowski describes and examines the ways in which Trobriand Islanders structure and maintain the social and economic order of their tribe. "The true problem”, Malinowski says, “is not to study how human life submits to rules; the real problem is how the rules become adapted to life.” Crime and Custom in Savage Society is a necessary book to understand the articulate relationship between law and society.