Crime and custom in savage society
By: by Bronislaw Malinowski
Series: International library of psychology, philosophy and scientific method; International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method
Publisher: Littlefield, Adams
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Primitive Law; Primitive societies; Ethnology
Notes: Includes index.

"Reprinted by arrangement with Humanities Press, Inc. ... first pub. ... Routledge and Kegan Paul ... 1926."--Verso t.p.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Primitive law and order; title: 1. The automatic submission to custom and the real problem; title: 2. Melanesian economics and theory of primitive communism; title: 3. The binding force of economic obligations; title: 4. Reciprocity and dual organization; title: 5. Law, self-interest, and social ambition; title: 6. The rules of law in religious acts; title: 7. The law of marriage; title: 8. The principle of give-and-take pervading tribal life; title: 9. Reciprocity as the basis of social structure; title: 10. The rules of custom defined and classified; title: 11. An anthropological definition of law; title: 12. Specific legal arrangements; title: 13. Conclusion and forecast; title: Part II. Primitive crime and its punishment; title: 1. The law in breach and the restoration of order; title: 2. Sorcery and suicide as legal influences; title: 3. Systems of law in conflict; title: 4. The factors of social cohesion in a primitive tribe.