Economics in Primitive Communities

Name: Economics in Primitive Communities
Author: Thurnwald

1969

by Thurnwald

Economic HistoryRichard ThurnwaldDivision of LaborEconomic DevelopmentSlaveryBureaucracyMax WeberWagesMonopolyCollectivismInheritanceFeudalismCapital AccumulationIndividualismInnovationKarl BucherCommunism

Table of Contents · 38 segments

Front Matter and Table of Contentsfront_matter

Notes on Terms Employedtheoretical

Introduction: The Nature of Primitive Economicschapter

Part I: Conditions of Primitive Economics - General Considerationschapter

Population and Its Means of Subsistencechapter

The Food Question: Ritual, Taboo, and Social Significancechapter

Settlements: Social Structure and Migrationchapter

Technical Skill: Innovation, Environment, and Cultural Horizonschapter

Types of Economic Life: Homogeneous Communities of Hunters, Trappers, and Collectorschapter

Homogeneous Communities of Hunters, Trappers, and Agriculturistschapter

Graded Society of Hunters, Trappers, Agriculturists, and Artisanschapter

The Herdsmen: Domestication and Pastoral Social Organizationchapter

Homogeneous Hunters and Herdsmen: The Transition to Domesticationchapter

Socially Graded Herdsmen with Hunting, Agricultural, and Artisan Populationschapter

Feudal States and Socially Graded Communities: The Ancient Eastchapter

The Development of the 'Familia' and the 'Manor' in Western Europe and Egyptchapter

Part III: Forms of Economic Activity - General Traitschapter

Handicraft: General Principles and Distributionchapter

Handicraft: Ethnographic Illustrations and Social Statuschapter

Wages and Barterchapter

Trade: Group Expeditions and Ceremonial Systemschapter

The Market and Purchasechapter

Distribution of Goods, Wealth, and Ownershipchapter

Feudalism and Family Capitalismchapter

Work and the Division of Labourchapter

Slavery and Bondagechapter

Serfdom and Symbols of Valuechapter

Partnership, Collectivism, and the Spirit of Primitive Economicschapter

Technical Progress and the Evolution of Culturetheoretical

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Index: A to Dbibliography

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Index: M to Rbibliography

Index: S to Zbibliography