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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wolf, Eric R., 1923- Pathways of power. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001 (OCoLC)606413533 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric R Wolf; Sydel Silverman |
| ISBN: | 0520223330 9780520223332 0520223349 9780520223349 |
| OCLC Number: | 44446257 |
| Description: | xx, 463 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | American anthropologists and American society -- Kroeber revisited -- Remarks on the people of Puerto Rico -- On fieldwork and theory -- Anthropology among the powers -- Building the nation -- The social organization of Mecca and the origins of Islam -- Aspects of group relations in a complex society: Mexico -- The Virgin of Guadalupe: a Mexican national symbol -- Closed corporate peasant communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java -- The vicissitudes of the closed corporate peasant community -- Kinship, friendship, and patron-client relations in complex societies -- Ethnicity and nationhood -- Types of Latin American peasantry: a preliminary discussion -- Specific aspects of plantation systems in the new world: community subculture and social classes -- Peasants and revolution -- Phases of rural protest in Latin America -- Is the "peasantry" a class? -- On peasant rent -- The second serfdom in Eastern Europe and Latin America -- Peasant nationalism in an Alpine valley -- Culture: panacea or problem? -- Inventing society -- The mills of inequality: a Marxian approach -- Incorporation and identity in the making of the modern world -- Ideas and power -- Facing power: old insights, new questions -- Perilous ideas: race, culture, people. |
| Responsibility: | Eric R. Wolf with Sydel Silverman ; foreword by Aram A. Yengoyan. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"This collection of twenty-eight essays by Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan."--Jacket.
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- Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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