by Bronislaw Malinowski · Ariel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434406650
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«Crimen y costumbre en la sociedad salvaje» is the anthropology essay by Bronislaw Malinowski, published by Ariel in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
A classic of anthropology in which Malinowski studies the life of the Melanesians of the Trobriand Islands. He analyzes criminality and its punishment, religious customs, marriage, economic life, current law and primitive communism, and distinguishes the specific traits of that society from the constants of human nature.
The original title is Crime and Custom in Savage Society (1926). The Spanish translation is by J. and M. T. Alier; the volume belongs to the Ariel Quincenal collection, number 105.
A reference work for readers interested in anthropology, primitive law and social history.
Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish track and field athlete, who is best known for winning a gold medal in the 3000 m steeplechase race during the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union and the silver four years earlier in Montreal. One year after his last Olympic appearance, Malinowski was killed in a car accident in Grudziądz, at the age of 30.
