Reading list for “Origin of Institutions” (1946)

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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