Crime and Custom in Savage Society | [1926/1940] | Bronislaw Malinowsk

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Crime and Custom in Savage Society

ABSTRACT

This volume discusses aspects of small scale societies, including the study of the mental processes, as well as indigenous economics and law.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part |62 pages

Part I Primitive Law And Order

chapter |8 pages

I THE AUTOMATIC SUBMISSION TO CUSTOM AND THE REAL PROBLEM

chapter |5 pages

II MELANESIAN ECONOMICS AND THE THEORY OF PRIMITIVE COMMUNISM

chapter |2 pages

III THE BINDING FORCE OF ECONOMIC OBLIGATIONS

chapter |4 pages

IV RECIPROCITY AND DUAL ORGANIZATION

chapter |5 pages

V LAW, SELF-INTEREST, AND SOCIAL AMBITION

chapter |2 pages

VI THE RULES OF LAW IN RELIGIOUS ACTS

chapter |4 pages

VII THE LAW OF MARRIAGE

chapter |7 pages

VIII THE PRINCIPLE OF GIVE AND TAKE PERVADING TRIBAL LIFE

chapter |4 pages

IX RECIPROCITY AS THE BASIS OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE

chapter |5 pages

X THE RULES OF CUSTOM DEFINED AND CLASSIFIED

chapter |5 pages

XI AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL DEFINITION OF LAW

chapter |3 pages

XII SPECIFIC LEGAL ARRANGEMENTS

chapter |6 pages

XIII CONCLUSION AND FORECAST

part |61 pages

Part Ii Primitive Crime And Its Punishment

chapter |14 pages

I THE LAW IN BREACH AND THE RESTORATION OF ORDER

chapter |15 pages

II SORCERY AND SUICIDE AS LEGAL INFLUENCES

chapter |12 pages

III SYSTEMS OF LAW IN CONFLICT

chapter |18 pages

IV THE FACTORS OF SOCIAL COHESION IN A PRIMITIVE TRIBE