Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

Wolf, Eric R.

History

Harper-Torchbooks

"Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Algeria, Cuba, and Viet Nam--not from the perspective of governments or parties or leaders, but from the perspective of the peasant peoples whose lives and ways of living were destroyed by the depredations of the imperial powers, including American imperial power."-New York Times Book Review

World

Harpercollins

Examines the relation of anthropology to the humanities during the past twenty-five years and explores the nature of man as viewed by contemporary thinkers

Anthropology

Politics & Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

"A good social survey for the society of Latin America."--Jorge Lugan, University of Virginia

The Human Condition in Latin America

Hansen, Edward C.

Oxford University Press

"Wolf drew on anthropology, archaeology, history, and geography to mold a magnificent, sweeping, and beautifully written synthesis. With style and deep personal engagement he unraveled the complexity of Mexico and Guatemala's past with its multiple ethnicities, many languages, and environmental diversity. . . . Armies of graduate students have challenged many of the details, but the book stands as a monument to a time when social scientists were able to think large thoughts and write elegant English"—Foreign Affairs, Significant Books of the Last 75 Years.

Sons of the Shaking Earth

Social Sciences

Univ of Chicago Pr

Examines the relation of anthropology to the humanities during the past twenty-five years and explores the nature of man as viewed by contemporary thinkers

Literature & Fiction

Classics

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention. It asserts that anthropology must pay more attention to history.

Europe and the People Without History

Europe

University of California Press

With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the circumstances of cultural production. Responding to social-science notions of ideology that incorporate power but disregard the ways ideas respond to cultural promptings, he demonstrates how power and ideas connect through the medium of culture.Wolf advances his argument by examining three very different societies, each remarkable for its flamboyant ideological expressions: the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific Coast, the Aztecs of pre-Hispanic Mexico, and National Socialist Germany. Tracing the history of each case, he shows how these societies faced tensions posed by ecological, social, political, or psychological crises, prompting ideological responses that drew on distinctive, historically rooted cultural understandings. In each case study, Wolf analyzes how the regnant ideology intertwines with power around the pivotal relationships that govern social labor. Anyone interested in the history of anthropology or in how the social sciences make comparisons will want to join Wolf in Envisioning Power.

Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis

Philosophy

This award-winning classic in the study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction (on which Eric Wolf collaborated near the end of his life) that shows the continuing validity of the book’s innovative approach to ethnography, ecology, culture, and politics. The authors investigated two Alpine villages―the German-speaking community of St. Felix and Romance-speaking Tret―only a mile apart in the same mountain valley.

The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley

Cole, John W.

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."

Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World

Silverman, Sydel

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Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

Anthropology

The Human Condition in Latin America

Sons of the Shaking Earth

Anthropology

Europe and the People Without History

Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis

The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley

Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World