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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815569603321

Autore

Wolf Eric R. <1923-1999.>

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001

ISBN

1-282-75883-7

9786612758836

1-59734-797-3

0-520-92487-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (487 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SilvermanSydel

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Ethnology - Philosophy

Ethnology - Comparative method

Political anthropology

Power (Social sciences)

Group identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-445) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword: Culture and Power in the Writings of Eric R. Wolf -- Preface -- Introduction: An Intellectual Autobiography -- Part I. Anthropology -- Part II. Connections -- Part III. Peasants -- Part IV. Concepts -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of twenty-eight 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. Shortly before his death, Wolf prepared introductions to each section and individual pieces, as well as an intellectual autobiography that introduces the collection as a whole. Sydel Silverman, who completed the editing of the book, says in her preface, "He wanted this selection of his writings over the past half-century to serve as part of the history of how anthropology brought the study of complex societies and world systems into its purview."