1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Richard Thurnwald, “The Psychology of Acculturation” (1932) This single-authored theoretical article defines acculturation as a psychological and social process rather than as the simple movement of culture traits...
Richard Thurnwald, „Die Persönlichkeit als Schlüssel zur Gesellschaftsforschung“ (1933) Richard Thurnwald’s 1933 essay is a methodological program for sociology...
Richard Thurnwald, Werden, Wandel und Gestaltung des Rechtes im Lichte der Völkerforschung (1934) This fifth volume of Richard Thurnwald’s Die menschliche Gesellschaft in ihren ethno-soziologischen Grundlagen is a compar...
Richard Thurnwald, Die menschliche Gesellschaft in ihren ethno-soziologischen Grundlagen. Vierter Band: Staat und Kultur (1935) Thurnwald’s fourth volume is a comparative ethno-sociological study of political order, soci...
Richard Thurnwald, “Gegenseitigkeit im Aufbau und Funktionieren der Gesellungen und deren Institutionen” — Summary Thurnwald’s essay is a theoretical synthesis in comparative sociology and ethnology organized around reci...
Richard Thurnwald, Koloniale Gestaltung (1939) Richard Thurnwald’s Koloniale Gestaltung is a programmatic colonial-policy monograph on the “methods and problems” of overseas expansion...
Richard Thurnwald, “Der Kulturhintergrund des primitiven Denkens” (1940) Thurnwald’s article is a comparative and theoretical essay on so-called “primitive thinking,” grounded in field experience in New Guinea, the Solom...
Richard Thurnwald, Aufbau und Sinn der Völkerwissenschaft (1948) Thurnwald’s Academy lecture is a postwar program for ethnology as a historical sociology of humanity...
Richard Thurnwald, Der Mensch geringer Naturbeherrschung (1950) Thurnwald’s postwar synthesis reads human history as an ethnological and sociological reckoning after catastrophe...
Richard Thurnwald, Des Menschengeistes Erwachen, Wachsen und Irren (1951) Thurnwald’s essay is an anthropology of mind directed against any simple story in which humanity passes from “primitive” darkness into modern reas...
Richard Thurnwald, “Völkerkundliche Vergleiche unter den Erdteilen” (1955) Thurnwald’s essay, written in 1945 and published in 1955, is a methodological reflection on how ethnology can compare cultures across continents...
Richard Thurnwald, Bánaro Society Thurnwald’s monograph treats the Bánaro of the Kerám, in inland New Guinea, as a decisive case for rethinking “primitive” kinship...