title: Crime and Custom in Savage Society
author:  Bronislaw Malinowski 
description: Now and then a book is written which cuts mercilessly through an accumulation of traditional conceptions and by the light of overlooked or misinterpreted facts and common sense shows us how absurd the orthodox ideas have really been. Such a book is this volume of Dr. Malinowski's, which brilliantly, concisely, and in non-technical language demonstrates how very wrong and indeed impossible are the currently accepted views of some of the fundamentals of savage life. (<i>Saturday Review</i>)
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  THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP
  
  
  [PREFACE](THE%20INSTINCT%20OF%20WORKMANSHIP%20AND_split_001.html#filepos2870)
  
  [CHAPTER I.
  INTRODUCTORY](THE%20INSTINCT%20OF%20WORKMANSHIP%20AND_split_001.html#filepos4781)
  
  [CHAPTER II. CONTAMINATION OF INSTINCTS IN PRIMITIVE
  
  
  TECHNOLOGY
  
  [CHAPTER III. THE SAVAGE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL
  
  
  ARTS
  
  [CHAPTER IV. THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE PREDATORY
  CULTURE](THE%20INSTINCT%20OF%20WORKMANSHIP%20AND_split_002.html#filepos260066)
  
  
  [CHAPTER V. OWNERSHIP AND THE COMPETITIVE
  SYSTEM](THE%20INSTINCT%20OF%20WORKMANSHIP%20AND_split_002.html#filepos349470)
  
  [CHAPTER VI. THE ERA OF HANDICRAFT
  (1*)](THE%20INSTINCT%20OF%20WORKMANSHIP%20AND_split_003.html#filepos428014)
  
  [CHAPTER VII. THE MACHINE
  INDUSTRY](THE%20INSTINCT%20OF%20WORKMANSHIP%20AND_split_003.html#filepos553599)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP AND THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS
  
  
  ### Thorstein Veblen
  
  
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