Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 463 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0520223330
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0520223349
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0520924878
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0585390002
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1597347973
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9780520223332
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9780520223349
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9780520924871
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9780585390000
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9781597347976
Content:
This collection of 28 essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-445) and index
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520223330
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520223332
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520223349
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520223349
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wolf, Eric R., 1923- Pathways of power Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Author information:
Wolf, Eric R. 1923-1999
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