Crime and Custom in Savage Society Book by Bronisław Malinowski

Crime and Custom in Savage Society is a scholarly treatise by Bronisław Malinowski. It was written after the researcher's expedition to the Tribrand Islands.
Considered a fundamental work in the anthropology of law, Malinowski describes the mechanisms that determine law in primitive societies and the varying approaches among those subject to it. He criticizes the prevailing beliefs in anthropology, based on interpretations drawn from Western civilization and attempts to contrast primitive societies as enacting law based on fear and other instinctive behaviors. The treatise offers a new perspective on the system of norms in various societies, and Malinowski opposes research that ignores context.
Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist and sociologist publishing in the first half of the 19th century. He conducted research on primitive societies in various parts of the world.