Founders of the anthropology of work
Subtitle: German social scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries and the first ethnographers
By: Gerd Spittler
Series: Ethnologie -- Bd. 14; Ethnologie (Lit (Firm)) -- Bd. 14.
Publisher: Lit; Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Münster; Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9783825807801
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Work; Ethnology; Social scientists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Forerunners in literature and philosophy; title: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels : from free activity to labour power and back; title: Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl : from real old-fashioned peasant to rational farmer; title: Karl Bücher : work and rhythm and the social organization of work; title: Eduard Hahn : the origin of work and technology; title: Wilhelm Ostwald : efficiency of energy use and the evolution of culture; title: Max Weber : religion and the history of rational work; title: Foundations of the anthropology of work; title: Anthropological debates on work in Germany; title: Karl Weule : technology and work; title: Richard Thurnwald : varieties of work in the light of comparative ethno-sociology; title: Bronislaw Malinowski : work as a central topic; title: Masters and followers.