1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Richard Thurnwald, Forschungen auf den Salomo-Inseln und dem Bismarck-Archipel, Band III: Volk, Staat und Wirtschaft (1912) Thurnwald’s third volume presents the sociological material of his 1906–1909 expedition, chiefly...
Richard Thurnwald, “Soziale Organisation und Verwandtschaftsnamen bei Primitiven” (1918) Thurnwald’s 1918 article is a methodological essay on how kinship terminology may be used to reconstruct social organization among...
Richard Thurnwald, “Politische Gebilde bei Naturvölkern” (1919) Thurnwald’s text is a single-authored systematic essay in comparative ethnology, sociology, and legal history, based chiefly on South Sea fieldwork...
R. Thurnwald, Die Gestaltung der Wirtschaftsentwicklung aus ihren Anfängen heraus — Summary Thurnwald’s 1923 essay offers a comparative anthropology of economic formation...
Richard Thurnwald, Die Eingeborenen Australiens und der Südseeinseln (1927) Richard Thurnwald’s 1927 fascicle in Alfred Bertholet’s Religionsgeschichtliches Lesebuch is a comparative ethnographic source reader on Indigen...
Summary: Richard Thurnwald to Ernst Harms, 15 June 1931 Richard Thurnwald’s letter to Dr. Ernst Harms is a compact exercise in editorial boundary-setting...
Richard Thurnwald, Die menschliche Gesellschaft in ihren ethno-soziologischen Grundlagen. Erster Band (1931) Thurnwald’s first volume is a comparative ethnosociological monograph built around “representative life-picture...
Richard Thurnwald, “Funktionelle Soziologie” (1931) This single-author theoretical journal essay closes a symposium on the aims of sociology...
Richard Thurnwald, “Analyse von „Entwicklung“ und „Zyklus“” (1932) Thurnwald’s essay is a methodological critique of two dominant ways of interpreting social history: “development” and “cycle.” He does not simply reject...
Richard Thurnwald, Die menschliche Gesellschaft in ihren ethno-soziologischen Grundlagen. Dritter Band: Wirtschaft (1932) This is a single-author scholarly monograph, the third volume of Thurnwald’s comparative ethno-soc...
Richard Thurnwald, Familie, Verwandtschaft und Bünde (1932) Richard Thurnwald’s second volume of Die menschliche Gesellschaft treats the family not as an isolated domestic unit but as a cluster of institutions through wh...
Richard Thurnwald, Economics in Primitive Communities (1932) Richard Thurnwald’s Economics in Primitive Communities is a comparative work in economic anthropology that treats production, exchange, labour, value, dominati...