Crime and Custom in Savage Society. SIGNED BY BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI TO GEORGE PITT-RIVERS.

MALINOWSKI, Bronislaw [PITT-RIVERS, George]

Verlag: London: Kegan Paul, 1926.

Beschreibung

xii, 132 pp; 12 pp of publisher's ads.; photographic plates. Original cloth. Light foxing to endpapers and page fore edges. Near Fine. First Edition. SIGNED BY BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI TO GEORGE PITT-RIVERS: "To George Pitt-Rivers who disregarding the irrelevant distinction in the title will appreciate & act according to the underlying principle of the text, in reciprocal friendship, BM". There are two brief notes in Pitt-Rivers's hand on the rear pastedown, the first concerning the "wrong use of world adultery". In the following year, 1927, Pitt-Rivers published his own book, which he dedicated to Malinowski: The Clash of Culture and the Contact of Races. An Anthropological and Psychological Study of the Laws of Racial Adaptability, with Special Reference to the Depopulation of the Pacific and the Government of Subject Races. There is interesting material about the relationship between Malinowski and Pitt-Rivers in Bradley W. Hart's book, George Pitt-Rivers and the Nazis (2015): "Pitt-Rivers and Malinowski had not yet met in 1921, but it quickly became clear that their work would have commonalties not only because of the geographic proximity of the research sites but also because the two men shared certain aspects of their worldview, including their interest in immersive fieldwork. In late 1922 . . . Seligman . . . suggested that Pitt-Rivers should read Malinowski's Argonauts [Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea] for possible affinities with his research. Pitt-Rivers was already aware of the book and had been asked to review it for The Forum, an Australian periodical. . . . His review was favourable and, in late 1923, Malinowski himself wrote to Pitt-Rivers to thank him for the review and point out the like-mindedness of their scholarly efforts: 'I should like to communicate with you for some time already, to tell you how extremely stimulating [and] valuable I have found your several utterances sent me in cuttings from my wife's sister. And also to thank you for the very interesting review you wrote (of my "Argonauts"). I suspect I need not add how congenial your outlook and your general Weltanschauung is to me and that at a time when anthropology has become a stony desert'. . . . At the same time it was a tempestuous relationship, in part because of the men's differing politics. Malinowski's inclinations were towards the left and 'champagne socialism' while Pitt-Rivers was conservative, militantly anti-communist and increasingly moving toward fascism as the 1920s progressed" (pp. 55-57). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16460

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Titel: Crime and Custom in Savage Society. SIGNED ...

Verlag: London: Kegan Paul, 1926.

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage