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Pathways of power : building an anthropology of the modern world / Eric R. Wolf with Sydel Silverman ; foreword by Aram A. Yengoyan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 463 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520924871
  • 0520924878
  • 0585390002
  • 9780585390000
  • 1597347973
  • 9781597347976
  • 1282758837
  • 9781282758834
  • 9786612758836
  • 661275883X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pathways of power.DDC classification:
  • 306 21
LOC classification:
  • GN345 .W643 2001eb
Other classification:
  • 73.02
  • 306
Online resources:
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.
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Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-445) and index.

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.

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.

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