Reading list for “Origin of Institutions” (1946)

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1. PRIMITIVE ECONOMICS: AUTHORS:

  • a. THURNWALD: Die Menschliche Gesellschaft, vol. I, II, IV
  • b. MALINOWSKI :
    • Argonauts of the Western Pacific
    • art. “Culture”, Enc. So. Sciences
    • “Primitive economics of Triobriands”
    • Crime and Custom [in] Savage [Society] [1926]
  • c. CORA DU BOIS:
    • “The Wealth Concept as an integrative factor” 
    • “Wealth and Property”
    • “Attitudes towards food and hunger”
  • d. Margaret MEAD:
    • The changing Culture of an Indian Tribe 
    • Cooperation and Competition 
    • Growing Up in New Guinea 
    • Reply to a review of ‘Sex and Temperament’
  • e. HERSKOVITS:
    • Economic Life of Economic Peoples 
    • review by K. Oberg
  • f. BENEDICT:
    • Patterns of Culture 
    • Boa’s introduction
  • g. FORDE-REFFIELD-COON-CHAPPLE
    • Forde: Habitat, Economy and Society
    • Reddfield:
      • Chan Kom. A Mayo Village 
      • Tepozttan. A Mexican Village 
      • Folk Culture of Yucatan 
    • Coon: The Races of Europe 
    • Chapple & Coon: Principles of anthropology [1942]
  • h. EVANS-PRITCHARD : The Nuer
  • i. MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS:
    • Kardiner: The Individual and his Society (+ Linton intro) 
    • Linton: The Study of Man 
    • Toynbee: A Study of History 
    • Lattimore: “Inner Asian Frontiers” 
    • Firth: The Study of Primitive Economics
    • Raddcliffe-Brown: The Andamans Islanders 
    • Golderweiser:
      • Anthropology
      • “Loose ends of the theory on individual pattern”
    • Radin: Social Anthropology 
    • Müller-Lyer: The history of Social Development
  • j. MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS:
    • Mrs Firth: Housekeeping among Malay peasants 
    • Johnson: The Backward Peoples 
    • Huntington : Civilization and Climate 
    • Williams: “Depopulation of the Suan District” 
    • Lafarge: The Changing Indian 
    • Slater:
      • Peace and War in Europe 
      • Southern India 
    • Lowie: “Lewis H. Morgan in Historical Perspective” 
    • Schweinfurth: The hearth of Africa 
    • Tyler: Anthropology 
    • Livingston: Life and Explorations 
    • Mommsen: Römische Geschichte 
    • Muntz: “Early development of economic concepts” 
    • Tomas: Primitive Behaviour 
    • Lesser: “Functionalism in social anthropology”
    • Keller: “Man’s Rough Road”
  • 2. PRIMITIVE ECONOMICS: SUBJECTS:
    • a. PRE-STATE:
      • Thurnwald: Black and White in East Africa 
        • “Die Gemeinde der Bánaro” [1921] 
        • Native labor in the Pacific Protectorate 
        • Sitabericht d. Anthrop. Ges. 
        • “Sozial psychische ablufe im Völkerleben 
        • Economics in primitive Communities 
        • “Soziale Organization”
      • von Fürer-Haimendorf : “Staat u. Gesellschaft bei den Naga”
    • b. MONEY 
      • Thurnwald : Die Menschliche Gesellschaft
      • Loeb : “The distribution and function of money in early society”
      • Petri : Die Geldformen d[er] Südsee
    • c. CULTURE:
      • Semantics: Jeffrays : “African tone languages”
      • Culture contact:
        • Mair : A study of Culture Contact 
        • Buell : The Native Problem in Africa 
        • Locke-Stern : When Peoples meet 
        • Pitt-Rivers : The clash of Cultures
      • Economics and Cultural Change: Dixon-Eberhart : Econ[omics] and cultural change [1938]
      • Totem et mana : Gurvitch : “Magic and Law” ; Maus[s] : Essai sur le don, forme archaïque de l’échange ; Koch : Totemismus u[nd] fiderklanen in Neuguinea
    • d. METHOD:
      • F.H. Knight : “Anthropology and Economics” 
      • Roll : A History of Economic Thought
    • e. PSYCHO-ANALYSIS:
      • Freud: Totem and Taboo 
      • Green : “Sociological Analysis of Horney and Fromm 
      • Kroeber : “Totem and taboo in retrospect”
  • 3. ORIGINS OF INSTITUTIONS:
    • a. DEBT SLAVERY AND FEUDALISM 
      • Thurnwald: Die Menschliche Gesellschaft
      • Polanyi: notes
    • b. DICTIONARY (definitions)
      • Weber
      • Thurnwald
    • c. SLAVERY: 
      • Kauffmann: Loadwirtschaft... 
      • Westermann: art. “Sklaverei”
      • Pauly Wiseowa; “Industrial Slavery in Roman Italy”; “Slavery and the elements of freedom in western Greece”; Thalbeim: art. “Hypotheks” Pauly Wissowa; Polanyi: notes
    • d. INTEREST:
      • Hildebrand: “Natural-, Geld-, u[nd] Creditwirtschaft”
      • Schrader: art. “Zins” Rex d. Indogemanischen Alterume; art. “Schulden”, do.
    • e. MISCELLANEOUS:
      • CHILD: Thurnwald : art. “Zunft”, HL d. Vorgeschichte 
      • CASTE: Thurnwald : art. “Kaste”, HL d. Vorgeschichte 
      • STATE, CLAN, CITY: Kulischer 
      • EXTERNAL CAUSATION: Max Weber; Meyer; Eberling
    • f. Max WEBER: Wirtschafft und Gesellschafft (added on hand)
  • 4. FEUDALISM:
    • a. HISTORY:
      • M. Bloch: art. “European Feudalism”, Enc[yclopedia of] So[cial] Sciences; La société féodale
      • Pirenne: Economic and social history of medieval Europe
      • Einze
    • b. ORIGINS OF PRIMITIVE FEUDALISM:
      • Golderweiser: Anthropology

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Date: 1946
KPA: 07/09, 1-3